“People Love Dead Jews” was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. 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. His non-fiction 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 he is a regular columnist for Tabloid. , ,
Dara 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 a new essay collection: People Love the Dead Jews. ,
Horn two National Jewish Book Awards, the Edward Lewis Valent Award, the Harold U. Ribald Prize and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, and she was a finalist for the JW Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. ,
Horn received a doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University. He holds the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. ,
This lecture is part of an anti-Semitism education initiative at Yale University, supported by a grant from the Academic Engagement Network. The Yale Forum of Jewish Faculty and Friends (YFJF&F), the William F. Co-sponsored by the Buckley, Jr. Program and the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.
Additional support is provided by The Program in Judaic Studies at Yale, the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven.
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