People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con-tem-po-rary Jew-ish Life and Prac-tice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.

Society & CultureSociety & Culture · medium confidenceSociety & Culture81 signalsLlm Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureGoogle Books: History -> HistoryTopic Classifier: Intellectual Biography -> BiographyIntellectual BiographyMemoir & Personal History
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living, and the book explores this dynamic in a “haunted present.”

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 55%.