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She explores the moti­va­tions of Var­i­an Fry and those who pre­serve his mem­o­ry. She explores fas­ci­na­tion with Anne Frank, the recent estab­lish­ment of a muse­um to the now defunct Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty of Harbin, Chi­na, an inter­est in ​ “uplift­ing” Holo­caust fic­tion (and the movies made from these best­sellers), and an online archive of the for­got­ten Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties of North Africa and Asia. In the chap­ters that fol­low, the author moves the read­er back and forth between exam­ples of the world’s fas­ci­na­tion, and at times obses­sion, with dead Jews and the anti­se­mit­ic events of Pitts­burgh ( 2018), San Diego ( 2019), and Jer­sey City ( 2019). As Horn con­cludes in her intro­duc­tion, the goal of Peo­ple Love Dead Jews is ​ “to unrav­el, doc­u­ment, describe, and artic­u­late the end­less unspo­ken ways in which the pop­u­lar obses­sion with dead Jews, even in its most appar­ent­ly benign and civic-mind­ed forms, is a pro­found affront to human dignity.” Weav­ing togeth­er his­to­ry, social sci­ence, and per­son­al sto­ry, she asks read­ers to think crit­i­cal­ly about why we ven­er­ate sto­ries and spaces that make the destruc­tion of world Jew­ry a com­pelling nar­ra­tive while also min­i­miz­ing the cur­rent cri­sis of anti­semitism. Why soci­ety is fas­ci­nat­ed with the death of Jews but cares lit­tle for liv­ing Jews is the sub­ject of Dara Horn’s newest book.