‘People Love Dead Jews’ / Interview with Dara Horn

 

‘People Love Dead Jews’ : Interview with Dara Horn

• Elie Petit 
• 22 February 2024
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Dara Horn is a journalist, essayist and professor of Yiddish and Hebrew literature. In this interview, she talks about what prompted her to write People Love Dead Jews in 2021, and the question this book explores: why do dead Jews arouse so much more interest than living Jews? Between the ritualization of a sterilized memory of the Holocaust, fascination with the figure of the Jew reduced to helpless victimhood and denial of the actuality of antisemitism, Dara Horn questions the deeply ambiguous way in which the West, and America in particular, relates to Jews, and to the ghosts they evoke^[1].

People Love Dead Jews / Review

 

People Love Dead Jews

Dara Horn’s fierce and often hilarious new collection of essays gives hope and backbone to the living

BY

DAVID MIKICS

SEPTEMBER 02, 2021

In late 2019, antisemitic terrorists murdered three people at a kosher market in Jersey City. The killers, who had a large stock of explosives in their van (enough to destroy an area the size of five football fields, the police said), likely intended to bomb the Jewish school below the market.