Click Here to Read: Review of Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory by David E. Stannard , Reviewed by by Cosma Shalizi in The Bactra Review: Occasional and eclectic book reviews.
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YIVO News and Events
What does YIVO want for its birthday? Your ideas!
We’ll tell you a secret. In 2015, YIVO turns 90. Yes, it’s a big birthday, and we’re proud of our work through the years, including some of the exciting things we’ve been working on in just this last year: The Vilna Project, Letters to Afar, the YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland, and of course our Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, along with two terrific public programming seasons. Continue reading YIVO News and Events
From Islamic State to Kiev: Apocalyptic Fantasy and American Power
Double Agent: The impossible life
Click Here to Read: Double Agent: The impossible life: Review of Becoming Freud: the making of a psychoanalyst By Adam Phillips, Reviewed by Aveek Sen in the The Telegraph, Calucta, India on September 26, 2014.
Click Here to Read: Sigmund Freud Tried Thwarting Biographers. That Didn’t Stop Adam Phillips on this website.
Click Here to Read: Review of: “Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst,” by Adam Phillips on this website.
The Banality of Evil: The Demise of a Legend
Valhalla in Flames
YIVO News and Events: The YIVO Vilna Project
THE YIVO VILNA PROJECT
East European Jewish Archive and Library Saved from
the Destruction of the Holocaust to be Reunited After 70 Years
Vilnius, Lithuania (September 23, 2014) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the launch of The Vilna Project, a seven-year international project to preserve, digitize and virtually reunite YIVO’s prewar archives located in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania, through a dedicated web portal. The Project will also digitally reconstruct the historic Strashun Library of Vilna, one of the great prewar libraries in Europe. Project partners are The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, The Central State Archives of Lithuania and the National Library of Lithuania. Continue reading YIVO News and Events: The YIVO Vilna Project
Upcoming Events Reminder: Stefan Zweig’s Impossible Exile and Facing History: Portraits from the LBI Art Collection
Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 6:30 PM | Panel Discussion
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
George Prochnik’s The Impossible Exile
Join us as as authors George Prochnik and Gideon Lewis-Kraus discuss Prochnik’s brilliant new biography of Stefan Zweig.
By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this celebrated writer who had dedicated so much energy to promoting international humanism plummeted, in a matter of a few years, into an increasingly isolated exile-from London to Bath to New York City, then Ossining, Rio, and finally Petrópolis-where, in 1942, in a cramped bungalow, he killed himself. Continue reading Upcoming Events Reminder: Stefan Zweig’s Impossible Exile and Facing History: Portraits from the LBI Art Collection
Encounters With Loneliness: Only the Lonely
Joshua Ehrlich’s Divorce and Loss: Helping Adults and Children Mourn When a Marriage Comes Apart
Click Here to Buy: Joshua Ehrlich’s Divorce and Loss: Helping Adults and Children Mourn When a Marriage Comes Apart on Amazon.com
Joshua Ehrlich, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who works with children, adolescents, and adults in his practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is an adjunct clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan as well as a faculty member at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.