Israel, Antisemitism and Jews in the News

In this powerful conversation, Jen is joined by Dara Horn to discuss her book *People Love Dead Jews*. They explore how society fetishizes Jewish memorial narratives while marginalizing the lived experiences of Jews today. Horn critiques the superficial treatment of the Holocaust in Western culture, which often reduces it to a morality tale that overlooks Jewish agency and complexity. She also addresses the troubling trend of erasing contemporary Jewish identities and the problematic oscillation between romanticizing Jewish victimhood and harboring assumptions of Jewish malevolence. The discussion emphasizes the importance of understanding anti-Semitism through a comprehensive historical and cultural lens.

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