{"product_id":"people-love-dead-jews-reports-from-a-haunted-present-by-dara-horn","title":"People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present By Dara Horn","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eWinner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Prac­tice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFinalist for the 2021 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eKirkus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e Prize in Nonfiction\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e Notable Book of the Year A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eWall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eRenowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture―and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks ― Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eAuschwitz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the \"righteous Gentile\" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eHorn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life―trying to explain Shakespeare's Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children's school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study―to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of \"Never forget,\" is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past―making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eNow including a reading group guide. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eDara Horn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e is the author of five novels and was one of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eGranta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e's Best Young American Novelists. She has taught Jewish literature at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University. She lives in New Jersey with her family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IsraelBookShop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43875394650277,"sku":"978-0393531565","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":43875394683045,"sku":"978-1324035947","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/978-1324035947_a09383e8-7b37-47d8-96fc-a0393042eb50.jpg?v=1725094041","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/people-love-dead-jews-reports-from-a-haunted-present-by-dara-horn","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}