Dara Horn to speak on her book, “People Love Dead Jews”

Public lecture. “People Love Dead Jews” was selected as New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Horn’s books have also been selected for Booklist’s Best 25 Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet. Horn is the author of 6 books, including the novels, “In the Image”, “The World to Come”, “All Other Nights”, “A Guide for the Perplexed”, and “Eternal Life”, as well as her new essay collection: “People Love Dead Jews”. Reviewing the new collection for the Wall Street Journal, Martin Peretz said, “This is a beautiful book, and in its particular genre—nonfiction meditations on the murder of Jews, particularly in the Holocaust, and the place of the dead in the American imagination—it can have few rivals. In fact, I can’t think of any.”
This lecture is part of an Antisemitism Education Initiative at Yale University, supported by a grant from the Academic Engagement Network.
Contact: Yale Forum of Jewish Faculty and Friends, YForumJFF@gmail.com