Love dead jews6/28/2023 ![]() She writes that she felt gaslighted by the notion that having an interest in Jewish suffering is somehow “a sign of respect for living Jews.” Concern over recent antisemitic atrocities in the U.S. Horn’s book makes a point I’d never heard made. ![]() ![]() The rise of international and domestic reports about defaced synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in San Diego, Boston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Chicago, and elsewhere are signs that even in America, antisemitism is on people’s mind. When I saw on TV recently masked, menacing men marching at the Lincoln Memorial, I was reminded of the 2017 torch rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where racist marchers chanted, “Jews will not replace us!” As if we wanted to. “I had mistaken the enormous public contract in past Jewish suffering for a sign of respect for living Jews. She dealt with an idea I’ve thought about for nearly nine decades yet never saw from her perspective: Could it happen here? Horn demonstrates that it already has. Horn’s evidence is overwhelming and scrupulously documented. Her argument is that the “ways we commemorate antisemitism and Jewish tragedy distract from a more direct reckoning…The future was the present, which was essentially the past…People murdering Jews is a three-thousand-year-old global phenomenon.”Įgypt, Spain, Germany, Russia, Baghdad - different eras, same results. ![]() But I was also curious enough to read the book, if only to understand what she meant by her provocative title. When I saw mention of Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews in the New York Times, I was revolted. ![]()
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