People actually prefer live Jews, really
Horn’s focus on all the ways society has failed Jews may be electrifying, but ignores a more complicated truth
Dara Horn
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Culture Dara Horn Asks The Fundamental Questions Of Life — Eternal And Otherwise
ETERNAL LIFE: A NOVEL By Dara Horn W.W. Norton & Company, 256 pages, $25.95 Growing older, we wrestle with the brevity of life, the paucity of our accomplishments, the impossible desire for more time. Beset by nostalgia or regret, we may yearn for the chance to revisit our youth armed with middle-aged wisdom. In her…
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News Maimonides, Medieval Jewish Thinker, Enjoys a Postmodern Revival
Maimonides is trending these days. The 12th century sage, once confined to musty tomes and talmudic study halls, is being brandished in the opinion pages of The New York Times, cited on the airwaves in “This American Life,” and featured in Dara Horn’s latest novel. By some measures, Maimonides is at the height of his…
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Culture Dara Horn Offers Her Own ‘Guide For the Perplexed’
● A Guide for the Perplexed By Dara Horn W. W. Norton & Company, 352 pages, $25.95 In Dara Horn’s first novel, “In the Image,” published in 2002, Rosenthal, an elderly Jewish immigrant, tells young Jason about crossing the Atlantic in steerage. When the ship finally approached the Statue of Liberty, passengers were so eager…
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The Schmooze Naming Names
Crossposted From Under the Fig Tree Who among us doesn’t have a relative whose name was changed at Ellis Island? Rare, indeed, is the American Jew whose surname is the same as that of his or her European and Israeli cousins. Normative rather than exceptional, the immigrant’s acquisition of a new name seems to be…
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