19 October 2021
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The case for Jewish anger
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Dara Horn, author of the new book People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present.
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In this video:
- Dara’s new book, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
- Anne Frank, Jewish self-erasure, and the actual lessons of the Holocaust
- Unique features of Jewish literature and history
- The case for Jewish anger
- The myth of Jewish immigrants’ names being changed at Ellis Island
- Debating Shylock
- The dark truth behind the comic relief of the “last Jew in Afghanistan”
- Dara: American society is fine with hating Hasidic Jews
- Dara’s path to daily Talmud study
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