And then there’s hate mail, and… oh WHATEVER, it’s no big deal, it’s not the Holocaust.'” Oh and I guess there are also those online death threats. When I was first asked this question, my immediate thought was, ‘Nope, it’s never impacted me at all.’ Then I thought, ‘Well, except for that lecture I gave a few months ago where the event was threatened and they had to call in the cops to monitor the event. “Everything looks great compared to, say, the Holocaust. “I think our view of what we experience is distorted by Jewish history,” Dara continued. So many people have told me that they’ve never experienced anti-Semitism, and then they’ll later tell me some horrible story, but it was just an isolated incident, no big deal, except it was an isolated incident that happened twenty times.” “I’ve discovered that Jews unconsciously downplay the anti-semitism they experience. I asked Dara if she had ever been personally impacted by the rise in anti-Semitism? Her latest book is an essay collection titled “People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present.” I interviewed Dara ahead of her upcoming presentation. Author Dara Horn will kick off the three-part “Anti-Semitism Series” at Temple Beth El of Boca Raton on Saturday, Septemat 7:30 p.m.
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