Click Here to Read: W.H. Auden’s Cheeky Tribute to Sigmund Freud by W.H. Auden on the New Republic website on December 16, 2014.
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Available from IPBooks: City Within a City by Basia Berman, Dedicated to Leon Kupferstein
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This translation is dedicated to the memory of Leon Kupferstein (1944–2006).
Leon Kupferstein was born September 27, 1944 in Samarkand, then U.S.S.R. Herschel and Fela Kupferstein had fled Warsaw to escape Hitler’s rampage through Europe, arriving in the U.S.S.R. where they were sentenced to languish in Stalin’s Siberian work camps. Once freed, they made their way south, and once their son was born they returned to their native Poland. Finding their familiesslaughtered they moved on to Paris where Leon’s sister Evelyn was born. Finally they made their home in New York City where they would live in the heart of Yiddishkeit in the Amalgamated Houses in the Bronx. Leon was a counselor to Continue reading Available from IPBooks: City Within a City by Basia Berman, Dedicated to Leon Kupferstein
Civilization and its Discontents: A Marathon Reading
Edith Wharton—The Sense of Harmony: A documentary about the American novelist
Israel Zamir, a Man Who Was Far More Than Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Son
New from IPBooks! The Exploiters by Harvey Kaplan
Gradiva Award Winners and Nominees on the NAAP website
Writer’s Wednesday: Curzio Malaparte
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Click Here to Read: Author, author: Why everyone hates Malaparte by Adam Thirlwell on the Guardian website on February 27, 2009. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Curzio Malaparte









