Dara Horn: The answer to the Jewish question

About this episode

Dara Horn discusses her latest works and educational initiatives aimed at promoting understanding of Jewish culture amidst current events.

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan, speaking with author and scholar Dara Horn. Horn visited ToI's Jerusalem studio while on a break from this year’s International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, taking place May 25-28 at the city’s Mishkenot Sha’ananim cultural center An author of novels and non-fiction, including “People Love Dead Jews,” “Eternal Life,” “A Guide for the Perplexed,” Horn's latest book -- her first for young readers -- is “One Little Goat.” Her newest nonfiction work will be published by Simon & Schuster in September under the title, "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living." We hear about how, after Horn published her bestselling work, "People Love Dead Jews," readers asked her for the solution to this problem. This week, she speaks about her new education initiative, Tell, which is bent on teaching American schoolchildren about real, living Jews, and Jewish culture. To launch the wide-ranging conversation, Horn defines terms…

People in this episode

Host: Amanda Borschel-Dan

Guest: Dara Horn

Topics covered

• Jewish identity
• education initiatives
• cultural understanding
• literature
• current events
• anti-Zionism

Keywords

• Jewish question
• Dara Horn
• education
• cultural identity
• anti-Zionism
• literature
• current events

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Times of Israel

Books & works: People Love Dead Jews, Eternal Life, A Guide for the Perplexed, One Little Goat, The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living

Places: Jerusalem, Gaza

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