Podcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews (Rebroadcast)

This Week’s Guest: Dara Horn

The celebrated novelist Dara Horn’s 2021 book People Love Dead Jews has an arresting title, one designed to make the reader feel uncomfortable. That’s because Horn makes an argument that tries to change the way people think about the function of Jews in the conscience of the West.

In the book, and in this podcast conversation with Mosaic editor Jonathan Silver (originally broadcast in 2021), Horn suggests that Jewish communities, figures, and abstract symbols of “the Jews” have come to serve a moral role in the Western imagination that, when one takes a step back, is bizarre and grotesque.