Exploring ideas related to her own Jewish identity, genetics, and feminism, Redeeming the Gene, Molding the Golem, Folding the Protein is what Rapoport called “a mythic parody.”

Rapoport challenges genetic engineering technology by creating an artificial anthropoid, the Golem, according to the ancient Hebraic ritual directions given in the Kabbalah. In the story, Lilith and Eve, maligned sources of female evil for many years, reinvented themselves by creating an ethical gene that they used to mold the Golem. The “Kabbalah gene” displaced the “artist’s gene” that Eduardo Kac invented in his artwork Genesis (1998-99).

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