Dara Horn

Contributor and Author at Freelance

Contributor at Jewish Review of Books

Author of 5 novels, and essay collection People Love Dead Jews. I don't use Twitter much. I'm more likely to respond via https://t.co/HR9QM7PbY8, and to update Facebook.

Articles

Podcast: Dara Horn on Her New Graphic Novel

2 weeks ago | mosaicmagazine.com | Dara Horn

Later this week Jewish families all over the world will sit down at the seder table and, guided by the text of the Haggadah, recapitulate in a highly ornate and ritualized form the Israelite redemption from oppression in Egypt. The text of the Haggadah itself is fascinating, not only because of its sources and composition and what it emphasizes and how, but also because it references itself. There are discussions of previous seders within the seder.
What’s on Our Bookshelf this April

3 weeks ago | toledoparent.com | Lori Orlinsky |Barbara Bush |Diane Alber |Dara Horn

I Loved You FirstBy Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce BushThe final third installment the “Sisters First” trilogy by the former first daughters, this beautiful book, inspired by nature, illustrates the beautiful bond that exists between parents and children. A sweet story that affirms parents’ heartfelt, never-ending love for their children. Ages 0-3.
October 7 Supercharged Anti-Semitism in the United States

Oct 7, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Dara Horn

For many American Jews, today is a stark reminder that they are still trapped, a year later, inside October 7, 2023. Here in the United States, that day—the largest massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust—and the events that followed it have unearthed a terrifying potential in American life, a monstrous development that is both a pattern and a warning.
Eternity Is Beneath My Feet

Sep 30, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Dara Horn

Is it possible this horrifying year has almost turned? That we are still here, in stupefied and ever-worsening grief and anger and despair, jump-scared almost daily by some new and previously unimaginable shock, and that it is now almost exactly a year later? Yes, it is. Here we are. It is a relief not to have to explain to readers of these pages what I am talking about, and I will take that relief where I can get it. Sometimes, that relief is literally on the floor beneath our feet.
October 7: Trials of Zion, Memories of Diaspora

Sep 30, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Cecile E. Kuznitz |Akiva Schick |Dara Horn |Ilan Troen

The October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre left Israeli society reeling in ways with which it has yet to come to grips. The Israeli television sketch comedy Ha-Yehudim Ba’im (The Jews Are Coming) recently featured a heartrending skit in which characters from Tisha b’Av 70 CE through the 1903 Kishinev pogrom to Simchat Torah 2023 described the violent attacks they endured, one character’s account blending into the next.
Opinion | Harvard’s Antisemitism Begins in the Classroom

Sep 27, 2024 | wsj.com | Dara Horn

No one in the advisory group argued against free speech. Students can chant “globalize the intifada” all they want. As the screaming students point out, “intifada” simply means “uprising.” True. Also, “Sieg Heil” simply means “Hail victory,” and Confederate flags are simply regional symbols. Students can scream whatever racist things they like. But this evades the question: Why is Harvard full of screaming racists?
Jewish Review of Books

Jul 15, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Agnieszka Traczewska |Shai Secunda |Joshua Barton |Dara Horn

There are hardly any women in A Vanished World, Roman Vishniac’s classic postwar album of the ill-fated European Jews he photographed in the 1930s. With their nostalgic and elegiac quality, those pictures—more black than white, more religious than secular, and more masculine than feminine—established a way of seeing and photographing Orthodox Jews, especially Hasidim, as a pious, almost premodern, cadre of men and boys.
Portrait of an Artist “Like Buttah”

Jul 15, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Samantha Pickette |Joshua Barton |Dara Horn

Viking 992 pp., $47 If there is one theme that ties together Barbra Streisand’s new memoir, My Name Is Barbra, it is control. There is the complete creative control she exercised over her albums, from songs to artwork—a feat guaranteed through a deal with Columbia Records in 1962 that sustained Streisand’s music career through six decades and thirty-four number-one albums. She also had complete control over her television performances and live concerts, which she has avoided . . .
Kamp Vught: David Koker’s Netherlands

Jul 15, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Joshua Barton |Dara Horn

The fat man sails through the air on a trout, a pot of fire dangling from his pole. Seated behind him is a woman in pink. Their destination is the city center, where fish vendors sell raw herring, to be eaten standing, held by the tail and lowered into your mouth. The trio’s progenitor looms nearby. Turned to metal, Hieronymus Bosch stares into space, palette tilted in one hand, thrusting a brush into his waist with the other. He is deciding how to paint his latest nightmare.
ICYMI, Jewish Students Are at Risk on Campus

May 21, 2024 | lilith.org | Dara Horn

One confounding fact in this onslaught of the world’s oldest hatred is that American society should have been ready to handle it….But diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have proved to be no match for anti-Semitism, for a clear reason: the durable idea of anti-Semitism as justice.