You loved his #1 New York Times bestselling bedtime book for parents, Go the F**k to Sleep. And he probably kept you up way past your bedtime with the award-winning screenplay he wrote for Netflix’s Barry.
Now join Adam Mansbach in conversation with grant maker and Jewish arts and culture advocate, Liana Krupp as he introduces his new book, The Golem of Brooklyn. In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid created out of mud and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against an immediate threat of violence. The Golem of Brooklyn is an epic romp through Jewish history and the American present that wrestles with the deepest questions of our humanity—the conflicts between faith and skepticism, tribalism and interdependence, and vengeance and healing.
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Mansbach is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and cultural critic whose work often weaves together insightful, irreverent, and downright hilarious spins on American Jewish culture. Join us for an unforgettable night.
Meet Adam and Liana
Adam Mansbach is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, the novels Rage Is Back, Angry Black White Boy, The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), and a dozen other books, most recently the bestselling A Field Guide to the Jewish People, co-written with Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, and his memoir in verse, I Had a Brother Once. Mansbach wrote the award-winning screenplay for the Netflix Original Barry, and his next feature film, Super High, starring Andy Samberg, Craig Robinson, and Common, is forthcoming from New Line. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, The Guardian, and on National Public Radio’s This American Life, The Moth, and All Things Considered.
Liana Krupp (she/her) is the President of the Krupp Family Foundation and Director of the Phillip & Bernice Krupp Foundation for Jewish Life. Her work focuses on building economic, political and cultural power for people who are most directly affected by systems of oppression. Her work has empowered her to step beyond the traditional role of a grant maker, to become an active ally and advocate to the partners the Foundations support. She serves on the boards of Keshet, Bend the Arc, Philanthropy MA, and Ballroom Marfa.
Previous to her career in philanthropy, Krupp worked in the fashion and digital media worlds for 15 years. Outside of her work, Krupp is deeply engaged in the arts, serving as a supporter, steward and advocate for socially engaged visual and performative work across North America. Krupp lives between Los Angeles and the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.
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