ONE BOOK, ONE JEWISH COMMUNITY
with Jewish Studies and Hillel at Drexel University
presents
People Love Dead Jews
REPORTS FROM A HAUNTED PRESENT
Dara Horn
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Reading and Interview
January 27, 2021, 6:30 p.m. ET, Online
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Join us in this lively conversation with Dara Horn as she reads from and discusses her highly-charged new book, People Love Dead Jews. Following her reading, Gratz College president, Zev Eleff, will interview Dara and take live questions. This event is presented by a joint partnership of the Drexel University Laurie Wagman Initiative in Jewish Studies, Hillel at Drexel University and Gratz College’s One Book, One Jewish Community program.
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Dara Horn is the award-winning author of six books, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002), The World to Come (Norton 2006), All Other Nights (Norton 2009), A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013), and Eternal Life (Norton 2018), and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews (Norton 2021). 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. Ribalow 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.
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Interested in serving as a One Book Community Partner? Community partners commit to promoting the event within their organizations and networks, and will be recognized in One Book, One Jewish Community promotional materials. For more information, contact Lori Cohen at lcohen@gratz.edu.
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Current community partners:
Beth Sholom Congregation, Congregation Beth El of Bucks County, Congregation Beth Israel of Media, Congregation Beth Or, Congregation Ohev Shalom, Darchei Noam, Main Line Reform Temple, Melrose B’nai Israel Emanu El, Old York Road Kehillah, Old York Road Temple-Beth Am, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Temple Beth Ami,Temple Brith Achim,
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One Book One Jewish Community | Gratz College | 215-635-7300 | www.gratz.edu |
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