![]() ![]() I already sort of had this sense of the way these stories were being used, that essentially people tell stories about dead Jews that make them feel better about themselves. And I want to say that this is actually one of many requests that I have gotten over the years from non-Jewish publications, where they basically only want me to write about dead Jews. ![]() She told me she began noticing this subtler side of antisemitism a few years ago, when Smithsonian Magazine asked her to write an article about Anne Frank.ĭara: I just had this sense of dread about that topic at that point. In a recent interview, Dara and I talked about what she means. I was very wrong.”ĭara Horn: You sort of think of antisemitism as being something like, you know, there’s some like neo-Nazi guy with a gun, you know, that's one aspect of it, but what we're really talking about is this, like, psychological dismissal. Dara writes, “I had mistaken the enormous public interest in past Jewish suffering for a sign of respect for living Jews. There’s also a companion podcast called Adventures with Dead Jews. It’s a collection of essays with the provocative title People Love Dead Jews. But her latest book is completely different. Welcome back to Can We Talk?, the podcast of the Jewish Women’s Archive, where gender, history, and Jewish culture meet.ĭara Horn’s novels are imaginative and steeped in Jewish history. Episode 69: Dara Horn: People Love Dead Jews ![]()
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