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“The Golem, the Ghost, and the Rose,” Jewish Quarterly Review, 115.4, 2026, Gantt Gurley and co-author Edan Dekel (Williams College). This is the third in a series of essays on the golem legend that began in 2013 with “How the Golem Came to Prague” (JQR 103.2) and continued with “Kafka’s Golem” in 2017 (JQR 107.4).
"Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction," Syracuse University Press, 2016, Gantt Gurley. A pioneering new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest nineteenth century writers as, first and foremost, a Jewish artist.