This chapter is invested in the stereotypical perception of Jewishness as a cultural disability and the significant movement in its representation from narratives of assimilation to narratives of reclamation. It examines the ideas of escape and escapism within the context of American exceptionalism: the contrast between the culturally assimilated American superhero (the Escapist) and the Jewish superhero (the Golem) in Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay exemplifies the two kinds of escape. This study allows a reimagination of the figure of the Golem as a superhero, and perhaps even as the impossible and fictional American superhero. Ultimately, Art Spiegelman’s Maus helps locate Golem as the superhero that was absent in the Golden Age to the locus of heroism in Jewishness.