Ashley N. Robinson, Postdoctoral Research Associate & Instructor, University of Connecticut In the January blog post, Steven Feldman offered an adaptation of the prayer “May their memory be for a blessing.” This is a distinctly Jewish sentiment about the dead, one that asks us to carry forward the memories of the deceased so that they might continue to live on. When I read Steven’s piece, I was reminded of Dara Horn’s (2021) book  People Love Dead Jews . Horn explores various ways that a focus on Jewish death and suffering in the non-Jewish imagination perpetuates the erasure of Jews and the realities of antisemitism. Memorializing of Jewish death exists alongside a perverse denialism of our historical and contemporary marginalization and suffering, which can make the former seem virtuous. But Horn argues that if the standard for non-Jewish concern with antisemitism is not endorsing or denying the Holocaust, that is a dangerously low bar. Steven has offered non-Jews a cal...