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People Love Dead Jews
- Reports from a Haunted Present
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.
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 anti-Semitic 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 her own family life - trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious 10-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 anti-Semitism 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.
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- Lonnes Leloup
- 2021-12-23
Such a breathtaking narration
This book was amazing. It made me laugh and cry. I got angry, sad, and hopeful. Dara Horn sublimely summarized what it feels like to be a Jew today, and Xe Sandals did such an incredible job reading it. Thank you so much for this wonderful piece of non-fiction. ❤️🙌🏻
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- Tamara
- 2024-01-19
relevant to the times
well written relatable and holds up to the north American jewish expirence of any time
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- Shay A.
- 2024-01-13
Interesting view on historical events
A very interesting view of events and deep research, I have discovered new information in the process. Recommend
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- Ewald Boschmann
- 2021-09-26
Essential hearing for gentiles and Jews.
Persistent faith in the face of unrelenting hate, hypocrisy, and evil. Well conceived an executed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-02-19
Incredible book
A must read or listen for everyone. So very important and timely for our world today.
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