This dissertation explores the use of the golem, the Jewish mythical creature, by authors to challenge monolithic conceptions of Jewish masculinity. I argue that by acknowledging the mutual interdependencies between the creator and the created, writers can gesture to the radical potential of the golem. In chapter one, I show how the treatments of the golem in Elie Wiesel’s and Isaac Bashevis Singer’s respective golem novels, The Golem: The Story of a Legend, and The Golem, precipitate its use in later stories. I also demonstrate how Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay interrogates masculinity by taking some of the questions concerning the creator’s relation to their art raised by Wiesel and Singer to their logical ends. In chapter two, I examine the representations of Jewish and black masculinities and the golem in James Sturm’s graphic novel, The Golem’s Mighty Swing . Chapter three demonstrates how Ruth Puttermesser of Cynthia Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers can perform masculinity by creating a golem. Finally, in chapter four I explore how Thane Rosenbaum with his novel The Golems of Gotham, and Pete Hamill with Snow in August , negotiate cultural rupture and loss via their golems. I posit that all of these stories attest to the strong ties between creator and created in order to reimagine creation and power inside and outside Judaism.