She has taught Hebrew and Yiddish literature at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University. The literary magazine Granta has named her among the Best Young American Novelists. Horn is also a fiction writer, with titles such as In the Image, The World to Come, All Other Nights, A Guide for the Perplexed, and Eternal Life. These essays touching on the overall theme-“reports,” with a more corroborated affidavit -were mostly published in other venues before coming together as a book of 12 fascinating, elegantly argued chapters.
Her latest book won the National Jewish Book Award, the New York Times Notable Book of 2021, Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, ALA Notable Book, Natan Notable Book, and was a Kirkus Prize finalist. Nicholas Church, Kiel, Germany, Septem(License CC-BY-SA)ĭara Horn gave People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present an intentionally provocative title, and it worked. Program at Yale, and the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.Īdditional support has ben provided by The Program in Judaic Studies at Yale, The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, and The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven.Diego Delso, Anne Frank diary on display at St. It is co-sponsored by the Yale Forum of Jewish Faculty and Friends (YFJF&F), the William F. This lecture is part of an Antisemitism Education Initiative at Yale University, supported by a grant from the Academic Engagement Network.
She has held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. Horn received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University.
Ribald Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, and she was a finalist for the JW Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Horn is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Harold U.
Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet.ĭara Horn is the author of 6 books, including the novels, In the Image, The World to Come, All Other Nights, A Guide for the Perplexed, and Eternal Life, as well as the new essay collection: People Love Dead Jews. Horn's books have also been selected for Booklist's Best 25 Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books of the Year, and have been translated into eleven languages. "People Love Dead Jews" was selected as New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Yale Building: Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, Room 114 (SSS-114) Time & Date: 7 pm Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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