![]() ![]() This includes her take on Anne Frank in a chapter entitled “Everyone’s (Second) Favorite Dead Jew” on “Jewish Heritage sites” today in countries where no Jews remain (discussing her surreal visit to the Jewish sites in the Chinese city of Harbin, which for around 50 years was the home of Russian Jews who thrived before being killed or kicked out) and the myth that Jewish surnames were changed at Ellis Island, and why American Jews were forced to change their names and lie to their children about it. Norton & Company, 2021) winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Horn’s goal was to “unravel, document, describe and articulate the endless unspoken ways in which the popular obsession with dead Jews, even in its most apparently benign and civic-minded forms, is a profound affront to human dignity.” She has always been more interested in celebrating Jewish culture in her five novels.īut over the last several years, Horn has been called on to write essays on subjects like the Holocaust, Anne Frank and the Tree of Life shooting and she came to a realization – that a large number of the pieces she was being asked to write were about dead Jews. ![]() Award-winning writer to speak at Yale about her book People Love Dead Jewsĭara Horn says she never intended to write a book like People Love Dead Jews. ![]()
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