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90/100Author:
Dara Horn
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
September 7, 2021
Novelist Horn draws upon her travels, research andfamily life to assert the vitality, complexity and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism thatâfar from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget"âis on the rise.
What The Reviewers Say
Reading Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews, I could feel the words coming back to me, as if I were reacquiring a language. Not a new language, in which you must learn a vocabulary and grasp the rules of grammar. But as in Platonic epistemology, where learning is essentially a recollection, I felt as if I were recollecting, retrieving something I had been asked to forget.
Some essay collections are just compilations, an opportunity for readers to hold in one hand articles by favorite authors. Less often a compilation becomes a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. This is one of those unexpected, memorable books.
... as disquieting as the book may be, it’s also extremely well-written and engaging, sustained throughout by Horn’s inimitably intelligent and lively voice.
The whole of Horn's book is much more than the sum of its parts, amounting to an interdisciplinary study of the pervasiveness of antisemitism in the United States and around the world.
