Click Here to Read: Freedom and Art by Charles Rosen in New York Review of Bnoks, May 10, 2012 Issue.
The Metropolitan Opera’s 1991 production of The Magic Flute, with sets by David Hockney.
“This was the end. This was the sum total of hundreds of generations of building, of Torah, of piety, of freethinking, of Zionism, of Bundism, of struggles and of battles, of the hopes of an entire people – this empty desert I looked around me at what had been the Jews of Warsaw. I felt one hope, and I feel it now. May this sea of emptiness bubble and boil, may it cry out eternal
condemnation of the murderers and pilagers, may it be forever the shame of the civilized world which saw and heard and chose to remain silent”
B Goldstein (2005). Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: the stars bear witness
Oakland CA AK Press
Epigraph: Richards, A (2012). Witnessing the Death of Yiddish Language and Culture. Holes in the Doorposts in The Power of Witnessing edited by N Goodman and M Meyers. Routledge New York
London,
Click Here for the Website for The Power of Witnessing
Click Here to Read: Dick Teresi Talks About the Line Between Life and Death By John Williams in the New York Times on April 12, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Invitation for the Book Launch of the Power of Witnessing on May 6th in Washington DC. Nancy Goodman and Marilyn Meyers with Gail Humphries: “Giving Voice to the Silenced”. Hear from contributors: Margit Meissner, Arlene Kramer Richards, Arnold Richards, Katalin Roth, Myra Sklarew, Nina Shapiro-Perl, George Halasz, Paula Ellman, Harriet Basseches, Susan Elmendorf and others.
Click Here to Read: Groucho Lives! (In Two Places) By Dick Cavett in The New York Times on March 30, 2012.
Click Here to Purchase: City Winin a City from IPBooks
NY Book Launch for CITY WITHIN A CITY
by Basia Temkin-Berman First English Translation!
Click links below to hear live audio recordings made at the book-launch event on March 2, 2012 in New York City (cosponsored by IPBooks & YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.)
1. Jonathan Brent, Director of YIVO, Introduction
2. Dr. Emanuel Berman, author’s son, editor, and psychoanalyst
3. Samuel Kassow, historian, author of Who Will Write our History?
4. Leon Hoffman, psychoanalyst, book-dedication to Leon Kupferstein (introduced by Dr. Berman)
5. Aviva Blumberg, Child-survivor of Warsaw Ghetto, saved by Basia Berman (introduced by Dr. Berman)
6. Arnold Richards, psychonalyst, closing remarks
City Within a City was the secret diary written in Polish in 1944 when Basia (Batya) and her husband Adolf-Abraham Berman, lived on the Aryan side of Warsaw—the part designated by the Nazis for Polish Christians only—and led a secret network helping thousands of Jews to hide and survive.
“I would like to describe this state within a state, or rather, a city within a city, this most underground of all underground communities, whose members met with each other, worked and talked in the midst of a population which didn’t suspect anything; where every street, every coffee shop, every tram stop called to mind dozens of unique adventures. Every name was false, every word that was uttered carried a double meaning, and every telephone conversation was more encrypted than the secret diplomatic documents of embassies.”
—Basia Berman
This unique and historically important book may be purchased at our bookstore by
clicking here: City Within a Cityor atwww.IPBooks.net.
Click Here to Read: Excerpt: ‘Memory, Trauma, and History’ by Michael Roth on the Berfrois website on March 23, 2012.
Sigmund Freud, Andy Warhol, 1980
Click Here to Read: Doctor reveals new ideas, treatment for children with autism. Dr. Karen Savlov offers new ideas and practices that aim to allow children with autism to be better understood in “The Unspoken Truth About Autism: A New Look at the Etiology and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders” Reviewed on the PR NewsChannel on March 22, 2012.