“Sometimes your body is someone else’s haunted house,” Horn begins. and all the Western countries-is founded on the death and resurrection of one Jew. It bears reminding readers that one of the great world religions-the largest in the U.S. 15 million of us who are living today but of those millions killed in pogroms, the Holocaust, mass murders and isolated incidents, as well as of communities in any number of countries that have disappeared, leaving, in many cases, few remnants of their existence.
But more than that, Horn tries to dissect why for many people around the world the strongest and most favored impressions they have of Jews are not of the ca. The book follows in the wake of horrific fatal attacks on synagogues and other Jewish locales (Pittsburgh, San Diego, New Jersey). She has taught Hebrew and Yiddish literature at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University. The literary magazine Granta has named her among the Best Young American Novelists. Horn is also a fiction writer, with titles such as In the Image, The World to Come, All Other Nights, A Guide for the Perplexed, and Eternal Life. These essays touching on the overall theme-“reports,” with a more corroborated affidavit -were mostly published in other venues before coming together as a book of 12 fascinating, elegantly argued chapters. Her latest book won the National Jewish Book Award, the New York Times Notable Book of 2021, Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, ALA Notable Book, Natan Notable Book, and was a Kirkus Prize finalist. Nicholas Church, Kiel, Germany, Septem(License CC-BY-SA)ĭara Horn gave People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present an intentionally provocative title, and it worked. For more doomsday rumination, subscribe to: Delso, Anne Frank diary on display at St. Uncertain Things is hosted and produced by Adaam James Levin-Areddy and Vanessa M. What Readers Want (Resolution not Ambiguity) How I'm Supposed to Respond to Anti-Semitism "I spent 20 years not writing this book" Anti-semitism, assimilation, and Jewish agents of erasure Memorializing dead Jews, erasing living Jews Check out our Patreon for behind-the-pod updates. We also can’t help ourselves and go meta: not only raking on the media (as we’re wont to do) but also nerding out about the difference between Jewish and Western literary narratives.įind us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podcast Addict, and Stitcher. In an episode filled with more ghoulish humor than usual, we follow Dara’s journey of uncovering a troubling (and often truly absurd) history.
That's the title of novelist and literary scholar Dara Horn's provocative book, which explores the ways in which non-Jewish societies exploit Jewish histories and atrocities to "flatter" themselves and erase Jewish realities.
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