Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist,Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish cultureΓÇöand increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacksΓÇöHorn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jewsnever about living ones. In these essaysHorn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frankthe mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Islandthe blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitzthe marketing of the Jewish history of HarbinChinaand the little-known life of the \