Program change: Graziella Rossi to perform “How is this Professor Freud…?” May 21 in lieu of “Sabina Spielrein”

By Tamar SchwartzMay 9, 2014 Books, Plays

Program Change for May 21, 2014

Please note that in lieu of the one-woman play Sabina Spielrein, LBI and the Zürich Meets New York Festival will present the following theatrical performance featuring Graziella Rossi.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 7:00 PM | Lecture and Staged Reading

“How is this Professor Freud, and how does he actually behave?” Diary of an Analysis, April 1921
Swiss Actress Graziella Rossi Continue reading Program change: Graziella Rossi to perform “How is this Professor Freud…?” May 21 in lieu of “Sabina Spielrein”

Review of Never Again

By Tamar SchwartzMay 6, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: Never Again: Echoes of the Holocaust as Seen Through Film by Syliva Ginsparg, reviewed by Martin Silverman in Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

This article originally appeared as Silverman, Martin (29014). Review of Echoes of the Holocaust as Seen Through Film by Syliva Ginsparg. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 83:2 pp. 495-503 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

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What about me, and the ills of society?

By Tamar SchwartzMay 3, 2014 Books

Click here to Read: What about me, and the ills of society?Review of: What about Me? The Struggle for Identity in a Market-based Society By Paul Verhaeghe, Reviewed by Stephen Saunders On the Age of Enlightenment website on May 3, 2014.

Aphrodite of Milos: Thinking in ancient Greece is Verhaeghe’s starting point. Photo: Supplied

Aharon Appelfeld Creates a Jewish Saint in ‘Suddenly, Love’

By Tamar SchwartzMay 2, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: Aharon Appelfeld Creates a Jewish Saint in ‘Suddenly, Love’ In his new novel, the great Israeli writer conjures a slow-burn connection between an innocent caretaker and her aging charge By Adam Kirsch on The Tablet website on May 1, 2014.

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May Events at YIVO

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2014 Art, Books

Open Secret: The Jewish Sound in Soviet Music

Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series

SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2014 | 3pm

CONCERT & LECTURE

Before World War II, the Soviet Union was the only country in the world to officially promote Jewish music. After World War II, Soviet authorities declared that Jewish music did not exist. Yet all along, major Soviet composers found deep inspiration in the sounds of Ashkenazi music. How did these composers manage to weave Jewish themes into some of the most stirring music of postwar Soviet Continue reading May Events at YIVO

This Is Your Brain on Great Literature

By Tamar SchwartzApril 27, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: This Is Your Brain on Great Literature by Amir D. Aczel on the Time Magazine website on April 26, 2014.

Petworth, West Sussex, England. An female old age pensioner looks through a selection of second hand books at a bookshop shop sale.Copyright Homer Sykes.

Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open

By Tamar SchwartzApril 27, 2014 Art, Books

Click Here to Read: Biography review: “Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open,” by Phoebe Hoban by Kirkus Reviews on the GuideLives Books website on April 26, 2014,

Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience

By Tamar SchwartzApril 26, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: Review of: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional by Steven Kuchuck Reviewed by Tracy Morgan on The New Books in Psychoanalysis website on April 26, 2014.

YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation

By Tamar SchwartzApril 26, 2014 Books

YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation
May 15, 2014

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014 | 7pm
BOOK EVENT
Cecile Kuznitz, Bard College; Samuel Kassow, Trinity College; Simon Rabinovitch, Boston University; Steven Zipperstein, Moderator, Stanford University and Kronhill Scholar at YIVO Continue reading YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation

Rhyme, reason and a dream of Freud

By Tamar SchwartzApril 26, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: Rhyme, reason and a dream of Freud, Review of What You Want Or, The Pursuit of Happiness By Constantine Phipps, Reviewed by Andrew Barron on The London Evening Standard website on April 26, 2014.