Was I Born a Golem?

In this essay, the author traces the personal background of her research on the Jewish golem legends that began with her PhD dissertation, The Golem as Metaphor for Jewish Women Writers. Drawing on diverse writers including Andre Brink, Eunice Lipton, Temple Grandin, Chava Rosenfarb and Cynthia Ozick, Yehuda explores the repercussions in her own life of the Talmudic statement, "A woman [before marriage or childbirth] is a golem."