![]() ![]() Her account of the behavior of the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam is particularly striking. ![]() She throws into stark relief the paradoxical effects of the Western world’s fetishization of the Holocaust, excelling at pointing out bizarre ironies. Horn covers an enormous amount of ground in her short, beautifully written book. Denise chastised Horn for writing a dismal book, instead of one that enabled “people to laugh, enjoy and be uplifted.” Denise would be well advised to stay away from People Love Dead Jews because Horn’s latest book is a profoundly depressing account of the world in which today’s American Jews have found themselves but is all the more important for that. In her new book People Love Dead Jews – Reports from a Haunted Present, author Dara Horn quotes from a letter she received from Denise, a women who had read Horn’s novel The World to Come, the protagonist of which was a pogrom survivor. ![]()
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