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‘People Love Dead Jews,’ Dara Horn | Top Story, Ep. 21

Author Dara Horn joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan S. Tobin to talk about the way sympathy for dead Jews gives the world a permission slip for hating live ones.

The two discuss her new book, People Love Dead Jews: Report From a Haunted Present, and topics like the role that the memory of Anne Frank plays in granting the world absolution for the Holocaust, the dishonest effort to claim that The Merchant of Venice isn’t anti-Semitic, “Jewish heritage” tourism and myths about name changes at Ellis Island.

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Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.
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