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Why do people love dead Jews?

Novelist and academic Dara Horn's new book gets to the core question underlying every antisemitic act: For many gentiles “Jews were people who were supposed to be dead."

 A MAN WALKS past graves desecrated with swastikas at the Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen, near Strasbourg, France, in 2019.
A MAN WALKS past graves desecrated with swastikas at the Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen, near Strasbourg, France, in 2019.
(photo credit: REUTERS/ARND WIEGMANN)
ByBRANDON MARLON
OCTOBER 13, 2021 22:37
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