The program was originally scheduled to take place in January but was delayed due to COVID-19.īefore the New Jersey resident set out to write the book, which took her on travels around the world, Horn said she was naïve.
Horn will discuss her book, history, antisemitism and what it's like to be a Jewish writer with the Columbus community on Friday and Saturday as part of a scholar-in-residence program at Congregation Tifereth Israel. Horn, the author of several novels, started writing the book after events made her realize that people tell stories about dead Jews but don't talk about what happened to them while they were living or why Jews don't live in those places anymore. Then she decided others shouldn't be able to disregard it either and wrote her first nonfiction book about the topic, "People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present."Īntisemitism is on the rise in Ohio: COVID-19 scapegoating may have exacerbated hate against Jewish people Dara Horn spent more than 20 years ignoring an uncomfortable feeling about her religion - that living Jews are often ignored by larger society as people tell stories about dead ones - until she couldn't set it aside any longer.
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