Adventures with Dead Jews

Day 6: Judah Benjamin was a Louisiana senator, Supreme Court nominee, and the Confederacy’s Court Jew as its Secretary of War and Secretary of State, until his successful 1865 escape. Link to hear more: ow.ly/27tZ50GYhgZ #SecretaryofState #SecretaryofWar #JudahBenjamin

Day 5: Solomon Schechter. A hundred years before Indiana Jones, this Cambridge professor (and former Lubavitcher Hasid) went hunting for Bible secrets in Cairo. Listen to find out more. #SolomonSchechter #Hannukah #Lubavitch #IndianaJones #Cambridge ow.ly/XMH450GYgU5

Day 4: Avrom Sutzkever was a Yiddish poet who lived a life worthy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: rescuing an entire national archive from the Vilna Ghetto, fighting in a partisan unit in a Polish forest. #JewishHeritage #VilnaGhetto #JewishPodcast ow.ly/1KoQ50GULTq

Day 3: Solomon Mikhoels led the Jewish Antifascist Committee, for which he was sent on a phenomenally popular world tour in 1943 to raise money for the Red Army to save the Jews. #MoscowJews #redarmy #yiddishtheater #JewishHistory #jewishantifascist ow.ly/Kzp550GULHQ

Day 2: Stephen Wise was an enormously influential Reform rabbi who was a close advisor to both Woodrow Wilson and FDR and, some say, failed to speak up for the Jews when he could. #ForestGump #AmericanJewishHistory #worldwar #StephenWise ow.ly/IrX350GULE8

Our host makes an appearance in @TheAtlantic in an interview about her book - have you heard her pod yet though?

Kicking off our 8 Days of Dead Jews is Jacob Schiff, a crazy-rich American Jew who got revenge for Russian pogroms by making massive loans to Japan, earning himself an audience with the Japanese emperor. #AdventuresofDeadJews #Hanukkah ##schiff ow.ly/IgnZ50GUGJf

For Hanukkah, we present you with 8 Dead Jews—one for each crazy night—who make appearances in our podcast. Join Dara Horn for a ride through some of the most bizarre, tragic, and accidentally hilarious moments of Jewish history. #hanukkah #deadjews #jewishhistory #TabletMag

For Hanukkah, we present you with 8 Dead Jews who make appearances in our podcast—one for each crazy night. Stay tuned to meet them all. #Hanukkah #deadjews #jewishhistory #TabletMag #DaraHorn #AdventuresWithDeadJews #jewishpodcast #eightnights

In this episode of Adventures with Dead Jews, Dara Horn breaks down the fascinating backstory of what happened when Japanese officials sought the help of American Jews to build a frozen Jewish homeland. Listen here: tabletm.ag/awdj2 japan #manchuria #jewishstate

What does a dinner party attended by the Jewish financier Jacob Schiff and Korekiyo Takahashi, the deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, have to do with the proposed creation of a Jewish state in Manchuria years later? Listen to find out. tabletm.ag/awdj2 #japan #manchuria

Some peculiar things have happened to dead Jews over the years. However, one of the weirdest stories we’ve come across takes place in Japan and Manchuria. Let’s see if we can get to the bottom of it here: bit.ly/3AaIaA7 #japan #manchuria #20thcentury #jewishstate

“The Eternal Light,” told stories about King David and Queen Esther, about Jews in ancient Babylonia and Jews in colonial America—all for a national audience as part of NBC’s religious programming. Why did this show succeed where others failed? tabletm.ag/awdj1

No one symbolizes our collective obsession with Dead Jews more than Anne Frank. That famous line from her diary suggests that a murdered Jew has offered us absolution from guilt. Listen to today’s episode to learn more. tabletm.ag/awdj1

Host Dara Horn wonders why so much attention is paid to the Jewish past at the expense of the Jewish present. What can we learn from the insatiable public appetite for stories about dead Jews? Listen to Adventures With Dead Jews to find out. tabletm.ag/awdj1

Why do people love dead Jews? Dara Horn takes listeners to strange corners of Jewish history, from Moscow to Cairo, New Orleans to Tokyo, exploring how the popular mania for dead Jews warps our understanding of both past and present. tabletm.ag/awdj #jewishhistory

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People certainly love dead Jews, and if you like the book - and @MattiFriedman's review - take a listen to us!