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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present | Dara Horn

I‘m not sure this book will appeal to many and the writing is pretty scholarly but this book makes me PROUD to be linked to the Jewish people. Dara Horn is giving voice to a people who have been raised for centuries to stay silent, lay low, avoid attention, be apologetic. Yesterday 2 horrific terror attacks were carried out in Israel, 2 innocent lives were extinguished & 19 were seriously injured, yet very little media coverage was given #StopHate

AmyG So much hate in this world. 😥 2y

TrishB Definitely #stophate 2y

Cinfhen You‘re both so right @TrishB @AmyG There‘s wayyyyy too much hate in this world!!! Violence is never the answer 😔 2y

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TrishB Sometimes I have to stop watching/reading the news because it‘s always so hateful. And online trolls! Who has the time and energy to hate that much 😢 we‘re a sad world. 2y

Deblovestoread This is horrible! I‘m am so tired of all the violence and all the rhetoric and hate speech that adds fuel to the flames. You would think the daily dose we get would be enough to change us but it just seems to get worse everyday. 2y

Cinfhen Can you imagine, storming a hospital and removing a person on life support @Deblovestoread that‘s a whole different level of hatred! And that boy was Israeli but not Jewish a Druze. So effed up!!! 2y

Dragon It‘s terrifying that such horrific things are happening- so sorry for the families of these victims of violence. Thanks for bringing this to our attention - there was nothing in our local news. 2y

Cinfhen Thanks for commenting @Dragon I appreciate your words of support 💗 2y

Deblovestoread I can‘t imagine and I can‘t imagine the ugly souls of humans who can and do. I finally heard an explanation of Trump supporters that made horrible perfect sense. They don‘t care that he doesn‘t want to help them they are just happy to have a license to spew their hate. Echoing @TrishB what a sad world…just heartbreaking. 2y

BarbaraBB It was in our news and I have been thinking of you. It makes no sense. Heartbreaking 💔 2y

Cinfhen Glad to hear it reached your part of the world @BarbaraBB I‘m also glad to say the young boy‘s body was returned to his family so they could bury him. What a double tragedy 😞 2y

BarbaraBB I can‘t even think about it. It‘s too much. The boy, his family 🥲 2y

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Cinfhen

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present | Dara Horn

I‘ve been wanting to read this book, now MORE THAN EVER!! I was SO GLAD to find it for sale in my local library ♥️ #StopHate

Blackink_WhitePaper Stacked ! Thanks. It looks like a must read . 2y

ChaoticMissAdventures It is so good! I learned a lot from it, and it reaffirmed my uncomfortableness with WWII novels that seem to glorify the war. 2y

Bookwormjillk I‘m on the holds list for this at my library. Glad to read your review. 2y

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Cinfhen Im glad to hear this book was impactful @ChaoticMissAdventures and im happy to share the message with likeminded readers @Blackink_WhitePaper @Bookwormjillk ♥️ 2y

Aimeesue @ChaoticMissAdventures I have a hard time with most WW2 books, and I think you just expressed the reason why. 2y

ChaoticMissAdventures @Aimeesue WWII novels are so popular and I have asked many people how many they read written by Jewish authors and they never know or realize when I ask they have read none. And it always feels a bit gross, the only words I can come up with are exploration and glorification. There is also a chapter on Shakespeare which I was completely unaware of how problematic he was. 2y

Aimeesue @ChaoticMissAdventures To be fair, the Nazis did a lot of damage to every society they touched, and there absolutely *were* people everywhere who did dangerous and heroic things to oppose them. But you gotta at least talk about the attempts to annihilate the Jewish people, and recognize that that was going on at the same time, right? 2y

ChaoticMissAdventures @Aimeesue definitely! My issue htad always been seeing more and more stories that are "cool spy" or other ways to make the war fun while ignoring the importance of death and horror. Both of the Jewish people and of the intense loss in the Pacific. 2y

Cinfhen I‘ve always “known” that Shakespeare‘s characterization of Shylock was problematic @ChaoticMissAdventures @Aimeesue but I‘m curious to learn more and my issue with Holocaust books has always been the idea of exploitation - who should tell and write these stories??? And like you both so eloquently state - the romanticizing or watering down of Hitler‘s ultimate goal. Horn also acknowledges that people “like” Jews as dead victims 👇🏽 2y

Cinfhen Not as much when they are living, breathing beings. It‘s a sad truth. 😔 2y

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