people love dead jews reports from a haunted present

Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster traveling 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. Her collection comprises a series of wide-ranging essays on sometimes eccentric but thematically related topics, including: the hypocrisy and opportunism of Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House the onetime Jewish community of Harbin, China that was persecuted first by the occupying Japanese gendarmerie and then by Mao’s communist regime the unsung Holocaust rescuer Varian Fry the Soviet Union’s persecution of its Jews and repression of Yiddish culture the abundance of bestsellers in fiction indited in non-Jewish languages that feature helpless Jews saved by gentiles (despite the relative rarity of such valor) the pressing need felt by many of America’s immigrant Jews, after being processed at Ellis Island, to change their own disadvantageous surnames despite reaching the land of the free and the home of the brave the Diarna online resource project to virtually preserve Jewish heritage sites around the globe the for-profit traveling museum exhibition about Auschwitz and the manipulative apologetics on behalf of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.“People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present” is a startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads())

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Why do people love dead Jews? - The Jerusalem Post

People love dead jews reports from a haunted present