#darahorn — Public Fediverse posts
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Not a flattering review given the lens chosen. IDGAF. My copy gets here today and I'm looking forward to it. Pun intended.
"A few days after I started #reading #DaraHorn’s new #book, I was called a “#kike” for the first time to my face.
It was a sunny afternoon and I was wearing my Newsguild shirt. A person on the sidewalk, deshabille, possibly collecting junk, asked what union I was in. Against my better judgment I engaged, believing them to be a fellow worker. I said I was a journalist. They then decided I was a “fascist” and “complicit.”
“Do you like writing about the #genocide in #Palestine? The war in #Iran?” they asked me, trailing me past a #Judaica store in a very #Jewish neighborhood.
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#Horn’s The #FinalSolution to #theJewishQuestion: A Love Story for the Living, her latest provocatively-titled #nonfiction book is a survey of #antisemitism past and present and the ways #Jews explain ourselves to the world. At its heart, it is about #education."
https://forward.com/culture/books/847643/the-final-solution-jewish-question-dara-horn-review/
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"Last week, #DaraHorn was hosted on #HavivRettigGur’s #podcast, “#AskHavivAnything,” to discuss her past #book and her soon-to-be-released book, both of which argue that #Holocaust #education in the #UnitedStates commonly fails to teach about the #Jewish people and #antisemitism, with possible negative consequences.
As #Horn has famously put it, our world seems far more invested in teaching about “dead #Jews” than about Jewish life. She suggests that this approach may reinforce the very hatred it is supposed to inoculate against.
Within hours of that episode airing, #Instagram accounts were using clips from the podcast to accuse the #Holocausteducation organization I work for of harming Jews. I am certain this is not what Horn intends, but one consequence of her argument is that it can easily be reduced to the belief that “Holocaust education does not work.”
It does, in fact, not work and the positive indicators in the article make Horn's case not Cunningham's. 🙄
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/does-it-matter-if-kids-learn-about-dead-jews/
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My pre-ordered copy is supposed to arrive September 2nd. Can't wait.
"Dr. #DaraHorn didn’t want to write this #book. She wanted to write more acclaimed #novels. But after she published her bestselling #essay collection People Love Dead #Jews, readers kept cornering her with their own horror stories of #antisemitism and one unfair question: can you help? She became the antisemitism Lorax.
So she wrote the answer, and gave it the humdrum, unprovocative title: The Final Solution to the #Jewish Question. It’s out September 1.
Dara joins the #podcast to talk about why antisemitism isn’t a bigotry but a lie told by people who want power (”Jews are destroying what you value the most”); how a 1940s #American Jewish strategy to be seen as a #religion rather than a people left today’s Jews defenseless; why American #Holocaust education “eliminates pattern recognition” and outsources everything else people should learn about Jews -- about living Jews, not just dead ones..."
https://havivgur.substack.com/p/139-dara-horns-final-solution-to
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Dara Horn is the hero we want. I immediately pre-ordered this book.
"If you thought People Love Dead #Jews — #DaraHorn’s 2021 #essaycollection examining society’s reverence for remembering deceased Jews while failing to support the living ones — was an awkward #book to read in public, just wait until you get your hands on #Horn’s newest title: The Final Solution to the #Jewish Question.
Horn, a celebrated #novelist who has become the bard of contemporary #antisemitism since Dead Jews was published five years ago, is in on the joke; she likes to say that both titles make great beach reads because no one will dare sit within several feet of you.
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[T]he title of Horn’s new book serves as an eye-catching, subversive #dogwhistle that is meant to pique the interest of #antisemites — while also serving as a cheeky summary of Horn’s goal of actually trying to come up with a solution to the wave of antisemitism that has swept the world in recent years."
https://jewishinsider.com/2026/08/dara-horn-the-final-solution-antisemitism-bookshelf/
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Unpaywalled version of Dara Horn's Atlantic article on US campus antisemitism.
The Return of the Big Lie: Anti-Semitism Is Winning - The Atlantic
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@lunalein @bookstodon
Louise Erdrich- "The future Home of The Living God"= Yes! Great intro for a sci-fi fan like me!
Dara Horn!
Cherie Dimaline
Cixin Liu
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain
Here's a list of other amazing (mostly) young authors I've been enjoying working thru:
https://www.jameswelchfestival.org/writers
Older favorites that I hope write another couple books! 💜❤️🧡💚:
Marge Piercy
Starhawk
Margaret Atwood#HashtagsAtTheEnd #LouiseErdrich #CherieDimaline #CixinLiu
#SterlingHolyWhiteMountain #DaraHorn