(PDF Download) People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Writen - Dara Horn
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By : Dara Horn
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Book Synopsis :
Renowned 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 Auschwitz, 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.Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also
Book Detail :
Author : Dara Horn
Pages : 272 pages
Publisher : W. W. Norton Company
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0393531562
ISBN-13 : 9780393531565
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