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Podcast: Dara Horn on Her New Graphic Novel
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Dara HornCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Dara Horn
Dara Horn is the author of five novels, most recently Eternal Life.
Latest Content
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Mark Podwal’s Art Expressed Thoughts American Jews Rarely Had Occasion to Think
“Images so bright and playful as to be defiant.”
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The Return of High-Minded Anti-Semitism
Universities fall sway to the durable idea that hating Jews is just.
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Podcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews (Rebroadcast)
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Dara HornCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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A Holocaust Memoir Unlike Any Other
The Last Consolation Vanished.
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What Being Jewish and Attending West Point Have in Common
Uncool and commanded.
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Education about the Shoah Won’t Stop Anti-Semitism
Using dead Jews as symbols isn’t helping living ones.
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In Trying to Highlight American Failures, Ken Burns Offers Apologetics for the President Most Responsible for Them
The Nazis lost their war against the Allies, but they won their war against the Jews.
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Campus Anti-Israel Activism Once Used Distorted Facts. Now, It Just Uses Hamas Propaganda
Kill the Jews, save the turtles.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Vision of Radical Evil, and of Art That Transcends Politics
There’s more to the Yiddish writer than “combining shtetls, demons, and sex in a small bowl, mixed well.”
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Finding Hope in the Jewish Story
What Jews can learn from what the Wampanoag wanted to learn about them.
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How the Soviet Union Created the Greatest Yiddish Repertory Theater, Used Its Director for Propaganda, and Then Murdered Him
Disposable Jews.
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The Jews Don’t Count among the Ranks of the Oppressed. But Should Jews Really Aspire to Victim Status?
Dismissing, shaming, and belittling Jews has, for many, become the norm.
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With Its Last Jew Gone, Afghanistan Becomes Yet Another Country Whose Jews Have Disappeared
People decided they no longer wanted to live with those who weren’t exactly like themselves.
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How a Deranged Conspiracy Theory Inspired Japan to Try to Create a Jewish State in Manchuria
Frozen Jews.
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Podcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews
By Dara Horn, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Cynthia Ozick’s New Novel Explores the Jewish Opposition to Idolatry Through (Very) Non-Jewish Eyes
At ninety-two, the author remains at the height of her powers.
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An Immortal Character in Jewish History
By Dara HornI first met Hersh Rasseyner in Jerusalem in 1994. (Of course that wasn’t his name, but that hardly matters. A Hersh Rasseyner is a Hersh Rasseyner.) He and I were both students in the Bronfman Youth F...
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Roald Dahl’s Protocols
Who doesn’t love a good conspiracy theory?
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A Popular American Yiddish Novel about a Modern Woman’s Personal “Battle against Free Love”
Not much sex in the city.
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Recreating Online the Lost Jewish Sites of the Muslim World
Virtual visits to the synagogues of Damascus, Aleppo, and Tripoli.
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The Other Great Yiddish Novelist Named I. Singer, and His Lesson for Our Time
I.J. Singer’s The Brothers Ashkenazi.
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A Romanian Film about Holocaust Remembrance and Denial Is a Searing Satire with a Dark Void at Its Core
Only interested in dead Jews.
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There Will Always be Jews Willing to Aid Anti-Semites
From the books of Maccabees to the Jewish sections of the Soviet Communist party.
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Podcast: Dara Horn on Eternal Life (and “Eternal Life”)
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Dara HornCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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A New Auschwitz Exhibit Gets Everything Right—but Fails by Turning the Jews into a Metaphor
No, the Holocaust didn’t happen because of a lack of love.
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Anti-Semites Don’t Just Hate Jews. They’re Targeting Freedom
The existence of Jews is a reminder that freedom is possible only with responsibility.
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The Chinese City Founded by Russian Jews
And the disturbing efforts to preserve Harbin’s “Jewish heritage.”
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A Yiddish Poem about a Werewolf Provides a Haunting Meditation on Jewish Suffering
H. Leyvik's masterpiece.
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A New Film Tells the Story of the Heroic Poet-Turned-Guerrilla Avraham Sutzkever
Black Honey.