Click Here to Read: Why Gary Shteyngart Remains His Own Best Creation: Author’s Memoir Is Portrait of the Artist As Young Asthmatic By Gal Beckerman in the Jewish Daily Forward on January 10, 2014.
Category: Books
The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld
A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz
Yedies fun YIVO / News from YIVO
Becoming Soviet Jews: Interview with Elissa Bemporad
On June 16, 2013, Elissa Bemporad spoke at YIVO about her new book, Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press), a case study of the Sovietization of Jews in the former Pale of Settlement. The book reveals the ways in which Jews acculturated to Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s. Read more…
Yiddish with Footnotes: Vilna 1913
by Maurice Wolfthal Continue reading Yedies fun YIVO / News from YIVO
Richard Friedman’s Ebook on Male Homosexuality
Freud’s Patients, A Serial A series of historical vignettes
Bertha Pappenheim Ernst Fleischl von Marxow Fanny Moser Les Patients de Freud
Click Here to Read: Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936) from Freud’s Patients, A Serial A series of historical vignettes by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Ph.D. Continue reading Freud’s Patients, A Serial A series of historical vignettes
E.L. Doctorow fills his new novel ‘Andrew’s Brain’ with neuroscience, grief and the stuff of dreams
Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film
‘Finally, proof that 12 years of psychoanalysis paid off for someone’
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition
Click Here to Read: Chapter 3 from Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition by Emily Kuriloff.
Click Here to Read: Table of Contents for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition by Emily Kuriloff.
For most of the twentieth century, Jewish and/or politically leftist European psychoanalysts rarelylinked their personal trauma history to their professional lives, for they hoped their theory—their Truth—would transcend subjectivity and achieve a universality not unlike the advances in the “hard” sciences. Continue reading Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition