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.
Identity/Crisis is a production of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Music by SoCalled. Links from this episode: Michael Walzer: https://www.resetdoc.org/story/citizenship-pluralism-and-political-action/ Mishnah Bava Batra 1:5: https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Bava_Batra.1.5?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
Featuring Ginna Green, Isaiah Rothstein, and Yehuda Kurtzer. Mentioned in this episode: - Danielle S. Allen, "Our Declaration": https://www.amazon.com/Our-Declaration-Reading-Independence-Equality-ebook/dp/B00FPT5KYW - ‘Believe us’: Black Jews...
In this week’s episode, Yehuda Kurtzer speaks with Donniel Hartman about how Israeli society and the occupation are testing Zionist ideals. Donniel Hartman's essay...