That is how I came across a now-yellowed clipping from Esquire, November 1974. It’s called my files, and right about now, I am digging through them, trying to discern what to keep and what to discard. Too much dust.īesides, I have my own archaeological dig.

We hope you’ll rate and review it wherever you get your podcasts, so that more people can join us on our adventures.(RNS) - I never really liked working at archaeological digs in Israel.

The managing producer is Sara Fredman Aeder, and the executive producers are Liel Leibovitz, Stephanie Butnick, Gabi Weinberg and Dan Luxenberg. It’s created and written by Dara Horn, and produced and edited by Josh Kross and Robert Scaramuccia. Adventures with Dead Jews is brought to you by Tablet Studios and Soul Shop. It's also available as an audio book from Recorded Books. Dara Horn’s new book, People Love Dead Jews, is published by WW Norton and is available wherever books are sold. For further background, see also Napoleon, the Jews, and the Sanhedrin and The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus. Jonathan Helfand’s work on Jewish identity in France can be found here and here. Hobson, and twentieth century American Jewish culture can be found here, here, and here.

Rachel Gordan’s most recent work on Gentleman’s Agreement, Laura Z. In this bizarre Napoleonic game show and the spectacular gory failures that unspooled from it, we can begin to see the unarticulated limits of what we now think of as diversity-and to consider, in profound ways, how we might do better. To investigate this requirement that Jews erase their differences in order to deserve respect, we go back to a bizarre moment in 1806, when Napoleon convened an ancient rabbinic court to ensure that the Jews were sufficiently Just Like Us. The movie’s premise is hilariously blunt: People shouldn’t hate Jews, because Jews are Just Like Us! Of course, this premise contains an unspoken compromise: If Jews aren’t Just Like Us, hating them might actually be fine after all. How did we get here? To find out, host Dara Horn rewinds back to the stunning success of Gentlemen’s Agreement, a 1947 Oscar-winning Hollywood blockbuster in which Gregory Peck plays a journalist who poses as a Jew in order to expose American antisemitism. But recent years have also seen an undeniable rise in antisemitism. Holocaust education has proliferated in the United States, along with a nationwide emphasis on anti-bias education.

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