Program Description:People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present is an intentionally provocative title, challenging us to confront reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, yet so little respect for Jewish lives as they unfold in the present.
Horn's twelve essays include among others, international veneration of Anne Frank, and “Auschwitz” a blockbuster traveling exhibit. She draws on her own family — trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious 10-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks at her children’s school, the essential Jewish perspective of religious practice, prayer, and study to assert the vitality and depth of Jewish life against antisemitism that is on the rise.
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the New York Times Notable Book of 2021, Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, ALA Notable Book, Natan Notable Book, and a Kirkus Prize finalist.
Bring a non-meat or parve lunch. Drinks & dessert are provided.
