Click Here to Read: Review of The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living by Mari Rutim Reviewed by Tracy Morgan and Richard Brouillette on the New Books in Psychoanalysis website on September 21, 2014.
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Taras Shevchenko:
Ukrainian Nationalism, Poetry, and the Jews
Tuesday, September 30 | 7:00pm
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On Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko’s bicentennial, distinguished literary scholars Gennady Estraikh (NYU; YIVO), Peter Fedynsky, Amelia Glaser, and Myroslav Shkandrij discuss Shevchenko’s impact on Jewish intellectuals, Ukrainian-Jewish collaboration, and the relationship between poetry and politics. Read more…
This program is sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Continue reading News & Events at YIVO
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Please join us in welcoming Professor Gennady Estraikh of New York University as the first Albert B. Ratner Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish Literature. While in residence at YIVO, he will moderate a public panel on Taras Shevchenko, give a lecture on American Jewish Communist novelist Howard Fast, and teach a course on modernist Yiddish literature in translation.
We invite you to meet Professor Estraikh at a special YIVO Member Reception at 5:30 pm on October 7. Keep up with Professor Estraikh’s activities at YIVO on Facebook, and by following us on Twitter @yivoinstitute. Continue reading YIVO News and Events
Arlene Kramer Richards and the Power of Women
Click Here to Read: Arlene Kramer Richards and the Power of Women, Review of Psychoanalysis: Listening to Understand by Arlene Kramer Richards, Reviewed by Irene Javors.
Click Here to Read: Sale! Sale! Sale! COWAP Conference: Myths of the Mighty Woman: What Makes a Woman? on this website.
The article originally appeared as Javors, Ireme (2014) Arlene Kramer Richards and the Power of Women., Clio’s Psyche Vol. 21 # 2 (September 2014): 236-238 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
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Shakespeare scholar disputes decision-reversal by journal
Click Here to Read: Shakespeare scholar disputes decision-reversal by journal by Matthew Reisz on The Higher Education Times on September 11, 2014.
SOURCE: SAM GOLDWYN/RENAISSANCE FILMS/BBC/KOBAL Ado in academia: one of the journal’s editors claimed that the professor’s paper on Shakespeare was ‘unscholarly’
You No Longer Have to Be a Man to Be Somebody
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Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose
Preserving the Yiddish language
Click Here to Read and View: Preserving the Yiddish language By Mac King on the Fox 5 News website on Septemner 11. . 2o14.]
Click Here to Read: Oy Vey: Yiddish Has a Problem The language is mostly spoken by Orthodox Jews who want to set themselves apart from the modern world. Is there a future for Yiddish in other communities? by Tanya Basu in the Atlantic Monthly on September 9, 2014.
Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Psychoanalysts About Endings, by Judy Kantrowitz
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Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Psychoanalysts About Endings, by Judy Kantrowitz (forward by Glenn Gabbard, MD) Routledge 2014.
Reviewed by N. Szajnberg, MD
Just before death (1956), Ernst Kris published his piece on personal myth and its transformation to personal history in psychoanalysis. Myths are archaic forms that live in the present, drive the present, as if they were still alive. Histories are life accounts that we feel are part of who we are, but do not drive our present. Resolving myths to histories permits us to build more autonomous futures. Continue reading Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Psychoanalysts About Endings, by Judy Kantrowitz
New from IPBooks: Pretend Ballads by Edward McCrorie
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On September 11, 2001, I was having dental work done in Providence, Rhode Island, when news of the attacks came through. My wife, Beatrice Beebe, was at work in New York City only a few miles from the World Trade Center. When we reunited later that week, we knew our lives were changing, and I encouraged her idea to help in Manhattan somehow, since she was well experienced aiding mothers with young children.
The poems, prose and pictures in this book are a culmination of many discussions, readings, clinical help and sundry emotions over the past twelve years. But I did not realize there might be poetry here until December, Continue reading New from IPBooks: Pretend Ballads by Edward McCrorie