Each essay focuses on different circumstances, but in all the circumstances, we have trouble noticing hatred against Jews and find uplifting lessons we can learn from the murder of Jews. The collection earns its shocking title, People Love Dead Jews. at Harvard in Yiddish, Hebrew and English literature), in these essays focuses on the evasions we use to avoid recognizing antisemitism. Horn, a celebrated novelist (who also earned a Ph.D. We do not see an event that happens in front of our eyes until a sharp-eyed writer names it truly.Ī sharp-eyed writer means someone like Dara Horn. About 25 centuries earlier, Confucius wrote that “Wisdom depends on calling things by their proper names.” That sounds easy, but somehow, people get distracted. (iStock) Name changing was often not a rejection of Judaism, but rather a recognition of the power of America’s antagonism toward Jews.Į rnest Hemingway claimed that “a writer’s job is to tell the truth.” The thought goes back a long way.
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