Click Here to Read: Evil not so banal, says disturbing new probe on the Medical Xpress Website on September 08, 2014.
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Abraham Sutzkever: The Power in Poetry
Wednesday, September 10 | 7:00pm
The Annual Naomi Prawer Kadar Memorial Lecture
Ruth Wisse, Professor Emerita, Harvard University
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The Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever came of age in Vilna in the 1920s and 30s when Yiddish poetry was the favored creative outlet of its Jewish youth. For him, poetry-but only if good enough-was more than self-expression, more than beauty and truth: the power of rhyme was the endurance manifest in nature and in the Jewish people. “That is poetry. / Touch it so lightly that you don’t leave a fingerprint.” In this talk, acclaimed literary scholar Ruth Wisse puts Sutzkever’s poetry to his own test. Professor David Roskies delivers introductory remarks. Sponsored by the Naomi Prawer Kadar Foundation, Inc. Read more… Continue reading YIVO News and Events
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‘Feminism Unfinished’ by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry
Click Here to Read: Review of: ‘Feminism Unfinished’ by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry Reviewed By Elaine Showalter in the Washington Post on August 29, 2014.
Rep. Bella Abzug, center, and Gloria Steinem, right, at a demonstration staged by the Reproductive Rights Committee of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women in 1976. (Bernard Gotfryd/Getty Images)
Jewish Identity: Heine and Freud
Click Here to Read: Chapter 15 from: The Faith of Fallen Jews: Josef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History edited by David N. Myers, Alexander Kaye.
This chapter originally appeared as Myers, David N. & Kaye Alexander. (2013). Chapter 15: The Purloined Kiddush Cups Reopening The Case on Freud’s Jewish identity in: The Faith of Fallen Jews: Josef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History . New York: Brandeis, p. 333-342.
Click Here to Read: Heinrich Heime; Flight and Return: The Fallacy of Being Only a Human Being by Martin Greenberg. Continue reading Jewish Identity: Heine and Freud
