There is definitely something very Jewish-ish about them, in language and heritage and also in themes, but also there are a lot of fantasy worlds that have Jewish-ish golems without having anything else even vaguely Jewish in them. I was actually thinking about requesting the golems in general as canonical-ish Jewish characters, because I would like that to happen, but I wasn't sure if I knew enough to say if it actually fit beyond the way fantasy likes to appropriate folklore. Does Father Tubelcek read as Jewish-ish to to people who actually know what they are looking at? In some ways it felt like Pratchett was going for a sort of Jewish feel, but a deliberately pluralist underlying theology where the golems are all powered by different religions (but, then, given the revealed theology of the Disc...)

(Feet of Clay was actually the second Discworld book I ever read, and also it has all the good V/V h/c, so I have read it many times.)

Anyway I think I should probably just keep repeating what I said in the letter before I get in trouble, which is that if someone else has figured it all out, I would love to know, so yes please keep discussing this in my comments. :D