All Things Passover with Author Dara Horn (PART TWO)
Being Jewish with Jonah Platt
Jonah Platt
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Shakespeare hated Jews?? In Part 2 of Jonah Platt’s fascinating conversation with acclaimed author Dara Horn, they dive deep into:
- 📚 The antisemitism embedded in classic literature — from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice to Roald Dahl’s The Witches
- 📖 Dara’s entire body of fiction work and what inspires her stories
- 🍷 Her famously elaborate Passover Seders
- 🎉 A slew of other fun and thought-provoking Jewish questions
- 🐐 And of course… her new children’s book One Little Goat — out now!
This episode is a must-listen and watch for lovers of Jewish culture, literature, and tradition — and for anyone seeking deeper insights into how Judaism shows up in the stories we tell and the ones we inherit.
Watch the episode at @BeingJewishPodcast: https://youtu.be/-Hv3F7nV2M8!
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Host & Production Team
Host: Jonah Platt; Produced by Rainbow Creative (Executive Producer: Matthew Jones; Story Producer: Sean Leviashvili; Editor: Nathan Wheatley); Consulting Producer: Bethany Mandel; Research Associate: Samantha Greenwald; Executive Assistant: Josie Rothschild; Creative Associate: Rachel Stern; Social Media Manager: Yuval Yosha; Graphic Designer Noah Bell
Mentioned In The Episode
- GET DARA’S NEW BOOK! One Small Goat: A Passover Catastrophe by Dara Horn: https://a.co/d/a54x1wz
- www.darahorn.com
- Dara Horn is Obsessed with Passover - Hadassah Magazine Article
- Chad Gadya Lyrics Explained
- Capacity: A Comic by Theo Ellsworth
- People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
- In The Image by Dara Horn
- All Other Nights by Dara Horn
- Eternal Life by Dara Horn
- Pre Order As A Jew by Sarah Hurwitz
- The Jewish History of Tzfat, Israel
- Who Doesn’t Love Roald Dahl? By Dara Horn
- Roald Dahl’s Active Antisemitism
- https://www.roalddahlmuseum.org/our-story/anti-racism-statement/
- https://forward.com/fast-forward/349771/roald-dahls-family-has-apologized-for-his-jew-hatred-what-were-the-5-worst/
- Dr. Nathan Winter’s Book: Jewish Education in a Pluralist Society
- Dr. Einat Wilf
- Yossi Klein Halevi
- Author Matti Friedman
- Yiddish Hero Avraham Sutzkever
- Nuremberg Trial Testimony of Avrom Sutzkever
- Book: From The Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony by Abraham Sutzkever & Justin Cammy
- The Paper Brigade & The Holocaust
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shalom, Kavarim, Banot, and welcome to another very special episode of the world's number one Jewish podcast. |
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| 0:55.6 | a rating, in which case you're a butt head. Welcome back for part of part two of my fantastic supersized conversation with the one and only Dara Horn. |
| 1:34.8 | If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, hit pause on this, jump back to last week, get yourself caught up, and then rejoin us. |
| 1:41.7 | In the meantime, we're going to get started. |
| 1:44.0 | Dara. One more big concept from people the meantime, we're going to get started. Dara. |
| 1:44.5 | One more big concept from people of dead Jews that I want to talk about is Merchant of Venice, |
| 1:49.8 | which you get into as an actor, an English major. This really hit home for me. |
| 1:54.7 | Basically, you break down how this is a wildly anti-Semitic, grotesque caricature of a Jew with no redeeming qualities, whose downfall |
| 2:05.1 | is celebrated, whose daughter abandons her Judaism to marry a Christian and run away. And it's so |
| 2:10.8 | widely performed, so widely regarded, entirely unquestioned. Like, why is your book the first time I'm hearing anybody talk about this? |
| 2:21.2 | You know, look, in the book I write about listening to a BBC production of this in the car |
| 2:26.2 | with my then 10-year-old son, which was this sort of amazing thing where I realized, like, |
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