LEADER 05226cam a2200793 i 4500001 283003 005 20240621235156.0 008 220209t20212021nyu b 000 0deng 010 2021012209 015 GBC1D5067 |2bnb 019 12657254251267995743 020 9780393531565 |q(hardcover) 020 0393531562 |q(hardcover) 020 9781324035947 |q(paperback) 020 1324035943 |q(paperback) 020 |z9780393531572 |qelectronic publication 024 8 40030755910 035 (OCoLC)on1233265759 035 283003 042 pcc 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dUKMGB |dJBL |dJAS |dIAC |dYDX |dEAU |dYUS |dVP@ |dNYP |dJ9U |dZ#6 |dOCL |dOCLCO |dIUK |dZGX |dOCLCO |dXII |dNYP |dWIO |dLHM 050 00 DS117 |b.H66 2021 100 1 Horn, Dara, |d1977- |eauthor. 245 10 People love dead Jews : |breports from a haunted present / |cDara Horn. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York, NY : |bW. W. Norton & Company, Inc., |c[2021] 264 4 |c©2021 300 xxi, 237 pages ; |c22 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237). 505 0 Introduction: In the haunted present -- Everyone's (second) favorite dead Jew -- Frozen Jews -- Dead American Jews, part one -- Executed Jews -- Fictional dead Jews -- Legends of dead Jews -- Dead American Jews, part two -- On rescuing Jews and others -- Dead Jews of the desert -- Blockbuster dead Jews -- Communing with Shylock -- Dead American Jews, part three: turning the page. 520 A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort 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 Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life--trying to explain Shakespeare's Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children's school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study--to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past--making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Jews |xHistory. 650 0 Jews |xPublic opinion. 650 0 Jews |xPersecutions |xPublic opinion. 650 0 Antisemitism |xHistory. 650 0 Death |xPolitical aspects. 600 10 Horn, Dara, |d1977- 650 6 Juifs |xHistoire. |0(CaQQLa)201-0011433 650 6 Juifs |xOpinion publique. |0(CaQQLa)201-0246643 650 6 Antisémitisme |0(CaQQLa)201-0001689 |xHistoire. |0(CaQQLa)201-0378888 650 6 Mort |0(CaQQLa)201-0015415 |xAspect politique. |0(CaQQLa)201-0382521 650 7 Antisemitism. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00810769 650 7 Death |xPolitical aspects. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00888637 650 7 Jews. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983135 650 7 Jews |xPersecutions |xPublic opinion. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983326 650 7 Jews |xPublic opinion. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983340 600 17 Horn, Dara, |d1977- |2nli 650 7 Jews |xHistory. |2nli 650 7 Jews |xPublic opinion. |2nli 650 7 Jews |xPersecutions |xPublic opinion. |2nli 650 7 Antisemitism |xHistory. |2nli 650 7 Death |xPolitical aspects. |2nli 650 0 Jews. 650 0 Jews |xPersecutions. 650 0 Death. 655 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies. |2bisacsh 655 7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights. |2bisacsh 655 7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes. |2bisacsh 655 7 Informational works. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919930 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 Informational works. |2lcgft 655 7 Documents d'information. |2rvmgf |0(CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001043 776 08 |iebook version : |z9780393531572 852 0 |bstacks |hDS117 |i.H66 2021