People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to appease 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 antisemitic attacks-Horn was troubled to
realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead J...