Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn

13 reviews

ceredonia's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Islamophobia, Racism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

jkamler's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Mass/school shootings

eslsilver's review

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Antisemitism

Moderate: Deportation and Gun violence

unsuccessfulbookclub's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Genocide, Murder, Violence, Xenophobia, War, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Grief, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

jacob_dion's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Colonisation, and Religious bigotry

razzberry_pi's review

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

2.25

Some of the chapters, specifically "Everyone's (Second) Favourite Dead Jew", "On Rescuing Jews and Others", and "Dead American Jews, Part Three: Turning the Page" were interesting and well researched explanations of the Christian obsession with dead jews. 

However, a large majority of the chapters are tainted by the authors very clear pro-Israel feelings. On multiple occasions she conflates antisemitism and antizionism, including comparing the BDS movement to Nazi Germany while refusing to make the same comparison with mass shooters. Additionally, the author makes some shitty comments less/dif erently observant jews, impling that they are essentially collaborators with antisemites and degrading yhe the jewish people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Antisemitism, Genocide, Torture, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexism, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Xenophobia, and War

emzconklin's review

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

“Sometimes your body is someone else’s haunted house.” From the very first line, this book of essays gets to the heart of what it is like to live in a world that doesn’t treasure lives of Jews until they’re gone, unless they’re teaching us something. And even then, treasure isn’t exactly what we’re doing. 

Antisemitism is on the upswing in the present year of 2023 and it’s never exactly been low. This book remains all too necessary. It challenged me in a lot of ways; I hope everyone reads it and engages with those challenges. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Murder

Moderate: Violence and Gun violence

lcdavenport's review against another edition

3.5

I will admit, I should've probably read the synopsis of this better than I had. I thoroughly enjoyed Horn's first chapter, regarding how people talk about Anne Frank. I don't think enough people are willing to say that the reason Anne says that she still believes there are good people is because she hadn't yet met the people who would murder her. I wish that Horn had maybe talked more about why people like the concept of Jews more than they like the existence of Jews, if that makes sense.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Murder, and Violence

ecn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Antisemitism, and War

the_dragon_starback's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

4.5

This was obviously very, very heavy, and of course it was excellently written. 

Also, this is yet another incident of my reading an essay collection from a famous novelist before reading any of their novels, joining such company as Diana Wynne Jones, Neil Gaiman, and Zadie Smith.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Antisemitism, and Gun violence