#67: The Global Fascination with Dead Jews

September 05, 2021 00:40:59
#67: The Global Fascination with Dead Jews
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#67: The Global Fascination with Dead Jews

Sep 05 2021 | 00:40:59

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Show Notes

Dara Horn, author of 6 novels, many essays, and the forthcoming non-fiction book People Love Dead Jews, speaks to Yehuda Kurtzer about the nature of the phenomenon of Jewish heritage site tourism in countries where Jews no longer live, who we write about when we write about Jewish history, and why she wrote this book now, after 20 years of refusing to center antisemitism in her work.

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