Book dead jews5/22/2023 ![]() Why do we care so much about how they died if we’re not interested in how they lived?” She asked the audience, “How many of you can name three concentration camps? How many can name three Yiddish writers? I ask because 80% of the Jews who were murdered were Yiddish speakers. “There are consequences to honoring Jews without agency.” “This was a case where Jews had no agency,” said Horn. In contrast, International Holocaust Remembrance Day recalls the Soviet forces’ freeing of the inmates of Auschwitz. The day serves as a reminder of the heroic acts of Jewish resistance. Horn pointed out that Yom HaShoah honors the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which took place in 1943. She often found she was being asked to write about dead Jews, not living ones. ![]() Her goal in her writing and speaking is to address the issue of why there seems to be a fascination with Jewish deaths and not with the inspiring, multifaceted life of Jews in the past and present. ![]()
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