Dara Horn Books in Order

Selections from Dara Horn’s journal document her participation in the 1992 March of the Living. Written as a teenager, these entries preserve her personal response to a journey centered on Holocaust memory.

An elderly Jewish refugee collecting photographs of biblical images befriends his granddaughter's young friend Leora. Moving between his past and her unfolding life, their connected stories explore how family history, memory, and spiritual questions shape unexpected possibilities in the present.

Benjamin Ziskind steals a Chagall painting from a museum because he believes it once belonged to his parents. The theft opens a journey through his family's history, connecting Soviet Russia, suburban New Jersey, and Vietnam through art, memory, and loss.

Jewish Union soldier Jacob Rappaport is ordered to kill an uncle plotting against Lincoln, placing military duty against family loyalty. A later assignment to marry a Confederate spy deepens his struggle over obedience, justice, and the personal cost of serving a cause.

Memory-software inventor Josie is abducted while consulting in Egypt, leaving her jealous sister free to take over her home life. Her fight to escape intertwines with an earlier scholar's search for a Cairo archive and questions about what preserving the past can cost.

Physics student Jacqueline and mathematician Roger meet while questioning the beliefs that shaped their lives. Their marriage and competing hopes for their daughters expose tensions between faith, scientific inquiry, parental ambition, and the limits of freedom within a family.

Unable to die after a bargain made two thousand years ago, Rachel has endured generations of marriages, children, and losses. As her modern descendants pursue technologies promising their own forms of immortality, she searches for an escape from endless life.

Dara Horn examines public fascination with Jewish suffering alongside indifference or hostility toward living Jews. Essays on memorials, literature, historical myths, and family life question how commemorating past atrocities can obscure the continuing complexity of Jewish culture and contemporary antisemitism.

A family cannot end its Passover seder because the hidden matzah is missing, leaving them trapped at the table for months. A talking goat leads a child through centuries of earlier seders to recover it and reconsider the holiday's questions.

Dara Horn combines historical research and contemporary reporting to examine persistent anti-Jewish myths and the limits of familiar responses to antisemitism. Drawing on work with institutions and communities, she considers how education, public responsibility, and changed assumptions could support a different future.