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  title info:
    title: People love dead Jews
    sub title: reports from a haunted present
  name:
    name part: Horn, Dara
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 237 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: A startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "Auschwitz," the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin, and the little known "righteous-gentile" Varian Fry, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, as emblematic of the worst of evils the world has to offer, and so little respect for Jewish lives, as they continue to unfold in the present. Horn draws upon 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 in New Jersey, the profound and essential perspective offered by traditional religious practice, prayer and study, to assert the vitality, complexity and depth of this life against an anti-Semitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise.
  table of contents: Introduction: In the haunted present -- 1. Everyone's (second) favorite dead Jew -- 2. Frozen Jews -- 3. Dead American Jews, part one -- 4. Executed Jews -- 5. Fictional dead Jews -- 6. Legends of dead Jews -- 7. Dead American Jews, part two -- 8. On rescuing Jews and others -- 9. Dead Jews of the desert -- 10. Blockbuster dead Jews -- 11. Communing with Shylock -- 12. Dead American Jews, part three: turning the page -- Acknowledgments -- Works consulted.
  note: Dara Horn.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-237).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Horn, Dara
      name part: 1977-
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Persecutions
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Antisemitism
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Death
    topic: Political aspects
  classification: DS117 .H66 2021
  classification: 909/.04924
  identifier: 9780393531565
  identifier: 0393531562
  identifier: 9780393531572
  identifier: 2021012209
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210401
    record change date: 20220105155926.0
    record identifier: in00004365806