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Center for Jewish Education presents the second annual Jewish Book Festival
Join us for opening night! Whether you’re a book lover or simply interested in community, this night is for you! Hear from renowned author Dara Horn, Sunday March 19 at 7:00 PM in the Sam Lerner Center for Cultural Arts on Shalom Park.
Horn’s “People Love Dead Jews” is a startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Her appearance is part of the Jewish Federation's Outshine Hate: Together Against Antisemitism initiative.
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture―and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks―Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present.
Purchase the complete Book Festival Package to receive an invitation to a pre-event private reception with Dara Horn.
Purchase the Book Festival Package Here
ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE ENDED. Tickets will be available at the door beginning 6:30 pm on the date of the event.
