Jewish question

Her nonfiction work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tablet, and the Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications.

was interviewed on in the spotlight this broadcast earlier this year about her young readers book which is wonderful and you can always keep it for the next Passover it's called one little goat a Passover catastrophe her most recent book which is a little more somber is called the final solution to the Jewish question a love story for the living it was just published by Simon and Schuster welcome back Dara it's good to have you

Thank you for having me.

Sorry it's a little less fun than it was last time.

And I sort of, you know, so that was, you know, one sort of very high profile place where I had this sort of front row seat to this dumpster fire we're all living in.

And then it started, you know, more and more people from more and more sectors were coming to me.

And the way I put it in the book is, you know, and this is true, people would come to me and say to me after I had written this book, People Love Dead Jews, describing this problem, they would say, so what's your solution to this problem? And my tasteless response was, Do you really want me to give you the final solution to the Jewish question? Because I wasn't prepared for giving that to you.

But now I've been thinking about this for the last three years.

I'm honored to be in conversation today with Dara Horn, whose work continues to impact our thinking about the times we are living in.

Her new book, The Final Solution to the Jewish Question, A Love Story for the Living, is a wide-ranging manifesto that explores how we got to this place where antisemitism is so rampant and what might be done to begin to alter its course.

In addition to her latest work, Dara is the award-winning author of seven other books, including five novels and the nonfiction work she is best known for, People Love Dead Jews, Reports from a Haunted Present.

Named one of Granta Magazine's Best Young American Novelists, She is the recipient of three National Jewish Book Awards, among other honors.

It's also an amazing story because I didn't realize that your earlier thoughts in writing were focused on these issues that you came back to because I know you went into literature for many years and I thought you kind of just came to this.

So we will 100% take credit for launching your career and it's something that we're very proud of and we're so happy that you're here.

So this new book of yours, The Final Solution to the Jewish Question, A Love Story for the Living, A provocative title, right? I mean, there's so much

read.

Join us next week for another great edition of Two Jewish.

Our guest will be Dara Horn, a frequent guest of Two Jewish, whose new book is called A Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.

Really interesting book.

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Okay, so if you haven't heard the introduction yet, head back to last week's episode, episode number 207, and give that a listen.

Today is chapter one.

And that's all you get.

For the rest, you'll have to read the book itself.

So, and obviously they're taking into consideration that they're not, I don't think they address the Khazar theory here, so that's perfectly fine.

There's still a lot of people who are very familiar with the JQ who deny the Khazar theory, and I'm fine with that.

And also here he says that they are a religion.

And I mean, I would make the argument, sure, they are a religion, but it's a religion of people who truly do not believe in God.