YIVO News and Events

SpartacusFarewell to Communism:
Howard Fast and Soviet Yiddish Writers
Tuesday, October 7 | 7:00pm
Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies
Free | RSVP: yivo.org/reservations / (212) 294-8301 x5167

Come join us for a special Members-Only Reception at 5:30pm to meet other YIVO Members, staff, and our new Albert B. Ratner Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish Literature, Professor Gennady Estraikh. The reception is only a couple of days away – RSVP today!

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More history: Freud, Heidegger, religion/wars, antisemitism, & wuhan from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear Colleagues:

The international psychoanalytic website is brimming with more historical material as it pertains to psychoanalytic thinking and development as the events were happening, be it their influence on Heidegger, Freud, Lacan and others, and on our theory – as in child development.
Spurred on by recurrent war efforts, this material is timely once again. Please note that I have attempted to avoid posing announcements of events which I had listed in the past few weeks, to avoid repetition.

My choices this week are:

1) For a detailed and personal documentary on how our own life experiences affect our work as psychoanalysts please read “Steven Kuchuck sits down with Tracy Morgan of the podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis” in the Audio/Video Category.
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Halloween, ambivalence,the Holocaust, therapy changes the brain from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear Colleagues:

When I was growing up this day was a relifious holiday and was called “All Souls Day” . I don’t recall it being scary or threatening as in “trick”. It is interesting to me that the day, like so many things in the world, has morphed into a scary occurrence despite the effort to “give treats” exemplifying the ubiquitous ambivalence and the love/hate human condition.

I turn to the international psychoanalytic website this week to give you a sampling of my own choices as well as the entire menu. I see the above in many of the posts and hope that you will comment. N.B. As in the past, I have NOT included previous announcements, so please check them all.

My choices this week are:

1) Please note the new thriving addition to IP.net, namely the IPBook.net
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Heidegger in Black

MartinHeideggerClick Here to Read: Heidegger in Black by Peter E. Gordon in The New York Review of Books in the October 9, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Heidegger and Nazism on this website.

Click Here to Read: National Socialism, World Jewry, and the History of Being: Heidegger’s Black Notebooks on this website.

Click Here to Read: Richard Rorty on Martin Heidegger on this website.

Click Here to Read: Why Does it Matter if Heidegger was Anti-Semitic? on this website.