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

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

 For us dead jews are not a metaphor but rather actual people that we do not want our children to become.

A tough but exceptionally important read for the present reader. This book stares down the societal obsession with trauma porn and the need for victims to forgive above all atrocities and calls it out on its bullshit. And it left me wondering, how do I interact with survivors who do not comfort me? How do I view them v.s those that do comfort me?

It also left me thinking of a quote that had been etched into a wall in a concentration camp “If there is a God, he will have to beg for my forgiveness.”
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