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Dara Horn · Arts & Literature

What

Novelist and essayist; 'People Love Dead Jews' (2021) reframed the public conversation on antisemitism

When

1977, Short Hills, New Jersey, USA

Where

New Jersey · New York

Biography

Dara Horn is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Novelist and essayist; 'People Love Dead Jews' (2021) reframed the public conversation on antisemitism

How & why

Dara Horn is a novelist and essayist and a scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature whose 2021 essay collection 'People Love Dead Jews' reframed the public conversation on antisemitism by examining how Jews are remembered mainly through their persecution. Her fiction, including 'The World to Come' and 'A Guide for the Perplexed', won multiple National Jewish Book Awards. She is Jewish.

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Source: Wikipedia; Moment Magazine — 50 Jewish Innovators

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Novelist and essayist; 'People Love Dead Jews' (2021) reframed the public conversation on antisemitism

2021

Source: Wikipedia; Moment Magazine — 50 Jewish Innovators