![]() ![]() King Memorial Lectures help keep religious studies, and Noel King’s idiosyncratic spirit, alive at UCSC. In 2014, I traveled to Belarus to learn more about pre-World War II Jewish culture around Minsk. In her new book People Love Dead Jews Reports from a Haunted Present, author Dara Horn quotes from a letter she received from Denise, a women who had read. Born in India and educated in England, he spent 14 years in Africa heading departments of religious studies before being hired to do the same at UC Santa Cruz, where he was a prominent and beloved figure until his death in 2009. ![]() ![]() King was a “founding father” of Merrill College. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s Best 25 Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year. Ribalow Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Harold U. Dara Horn has engaged that struggle, and in People Love Dead Jews she explains why so many prefer the mythologized, dead Jewish victim to the living Jew next door. This lecture is scheduled for March 9 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm at the Merrill College Cultural Center.ĭara Horn is the award-winning author of six books and, most recently, an essay collection, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. To see what is in front of ones nose needs a constant struggle, George Orwell told us. King Memorial Lecture, “People Love Dead Jews,” featuring award-winning author Dara Horn. ![]()
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