Join us on Zoom for the next meeting of GRS READS, when we’ll discuss People Love Dead Jews, by Dara Horn, available from the Greenwich library, bookstores, and on Amazon in paper, as an e-book, or in audio format.

Listed by the NY Times as one of the year’s top 100 books, this remarkable collection of essays reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster traveling exhibition called ​“Auschwitz,” the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin, and the little known ​“righteous Gentile” Varian Fry. Dara Horn challenges her readers to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, as emblematic of the worst of evils the world has to offer, and so little respect for Jewish lives, as they unfold in the present.