A review by ktrain3900
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone calls a book "necessary". The frequent use of the word for books of all stripes and types feels like a lazy marketing ploy. It cheapens the effect when a book truly needs to not just be in the world but also be widely read. This is a book that needs to be widely read. Fortunately it has an attention-grabbing title equaled in power by the dynamic writing it contains. It's unflinching, unapologetic, deeply felt, well-researched, and packed with historical and contemporary accounts of living (and dying) while Jewish. This is a real gut punch of a collection, hard to read and hard to rate, and ultimately vital, eye-opening, and...necessary.