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PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS
Adventures in a Haunted Present
A powerful collection of essays by acclaimed author Dara Horn.
After the feedback Dara Horn received for her Atlantic piece about the Downtown Manhattan Auschwitz attraction, and op-eds she wrote for the Times after the two mass synagogue shootings, she conceived of a book of essays centered on the implications evoked in her title: PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS: Adventures in a Haunted Present.
The original and reworked pieces here collect her thoughts about a subject that she has strenuously avoided in her fiction: the fetishization of dead Jews. Dead Jews are lessons, symbols, metaphors, harbingers, icons, and examples.
From her Introduction:
What, I asked, was the point of caring so much about how people died, if one cared so little about how they lived? At the time, I did not appreciate how deep the obsession with dead Jews went, how necessary it was to so many people's unarticulated concept of civilization, to their unarticulated concept of themselves.
PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS will stand alongside books by Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, Zadie Smith's Feel Free, even Ta-Nehihi Coates's We Were Eight Years in Power, as a compilation of persuasive essays that nail down an otherwise evasive new brand of exploitation and betrayal.
Dara Horn, the author of the novels All Other Nights, The World to Come, and In the Image, and winner of two National Jewish Book Awards. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.
The original and reworked pieces here collect her thoughts about a subject that she has strenuously avoided in her fiction: the fetishization of dead Jews. Dead Jews are lessons, symbols, metaphors, harbingers, icons, and examples.
From her Introduction:
What, I asked, was the point of caring so much about how people died, if one cared so little about how they lived? At the time, I did not appreciate how deep the obsession with dead Jews went, how necessary it was to so many people's unarticulated concept of civilization, to their unarticulated concept of themselves.
PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS will stand alongside books by Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, Zadie Smith's Feel Free, even Ta-Nehihi Coates's We Were Eight Years in Power, as a compilation of persuasive essays that nail down an otherwise evasive new brand of exploitation and betrayal.
Dara Horn, the author of the novels All Other Nights, The World to Come, and In the Image, and winner of two National Jewish Book Awards. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.
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Published 2022-09-03 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA) |