Click Here to Read: Okhrana: The Paris Operations of the Russian Imperial Police by Ben B. Fischer History Staff Center for the Study of Intelligence on the Central Intelligence Agency Website.
Category: Books
Raleigh publisher rescues important Yiddish tales
Splashing through the Puddles
Sigmund Freud
Doctors Tell All—and It’s Bad
Publishing and Jewish Life in Russia
Click here to Read: Publishing and Jewish Life in Russia By Richard F. Shepard in The New York Times on August 6, 1988.
Click Here to Read: Dr. Arnold Richards’s remarks on the opening of the YIVO exhibition “Revolutions in Print: Jewish Publishing Under the Tsars and the Soviets, June 6, 1988.
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“Searching for Leaven,” a cartoon published in Odessa in 1906. It is included in an exhibition at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Hyper-Parenting, Hannah Arendt, Trauma, Simone de Beavoir, EMRs from Sasha Rolde on IP.net
Dear Colleagues:
To recover from the doldrums of reading about Ebola and the stock market, not to mention all the world political issues, I turned to our international website this week for solace – and found it. I hope that you will too. As usual, I will give you my personal choices, followed by the entire list. Enjoy.
My choices this week are:
1) In the event that you missed it, please read the note from Arlene Kramer Richards: COWAP Conference a Success
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2) The ART category contains some fascinating pictures of the Cosmos and History through time – worth looking at!!
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Reflections on Violence by Hannah Arendt
Click Here to Read: Reflections on Violence by Hannah Arendt in the New York Review of Books on July 11, 2013.
Click Here to Read: Hannah Arnedt on Philosophy Thursday on this website.
Click Here to Read: Lonely Thinking: Hannah Arendt on Film on this website
Click here to Read: Hannah Arendt and the Study of Evil With Elisabeth Young-Bruehl on this website.
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Where Kafka, Mossad, and Yiddish meet
Click Here to Read: Where Kafka, Mossad, and Yiddish meet: the Israel Library’s hidden gems. This week, the national library in Jerusalem opened its vaults for a rare glimpe at its most prized treasures. Some had not been made public in years. Others have never had public viewings By Daniel Estrin on the Haaretz website on October 14, 2014.
A library official shows a 13th-century German prayer book containing the earliest evidence of the Yiddish language, at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem. Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. Photo by AP