Dear Friends,

What an extraordinary season we have planned for you at YIVO. This fall we’re proud to present: the U.S. premiere of Letters to Afar at the Museum of the City of New York; a brand-new Artists and Scholars Series; lectures; panels; theater and puppet performances; an artist and scholar collaboration; programs in Yiddish; an artist-in-residence with Letters’ creator Péter Forgács, and more. Visit here for a complete list of fall offerings.

Want to delve deeper into program content? This season, we’re excited to introduce pre-event study groups Continue reading Yivo: Fall Season is Now Online!

1) I am always struck by how people who emigrated to escape the Nazi regime survived or didn’t – please read the post in the ART or BOOK sections on “Stefan Zweig’s Impossible Exile and Facing History” – his enormous intellect, and drive turned into dust.
Click Here to Read This Article Continue reading The winds of war and dynamic view of historical events from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Click Here to Read: References for works cited in the Rapaport-Holt Letters

Click Here to Read: Persons Mentioned in the Rapaport-Holt Letters

Click Here to Read: The Rapaport-Holt Letters: A Master-Apprentice Collaboration on Psychoanalytic Theory Continue reading The Rapaport/Holt Letters on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net

Click Here to Read : Certainty on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website on Feb 2, 2008.

Click Here to Read:  Reports Of Psychology’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated by Tania Lombrozo on the 13.7 cosmos and culture website on August 04, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Satire from the Onion: Psychology Comes To Halt As Weary Researchers Say The Mind Cannot Possibly Study Itself on this website.

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Click Here to Read:  Feted in China, Artist Worried By Walls Here By David Gonzalez in The New York Times on January 25, 1997.

Click Here to Read: Ten years at Saturn with the Cassini spacecraft By Don Barrett on the World Socialist Web Site on July 4m 2014.

Click Here to Read:  World of Resistance (Wor) Report, Part 1: the Global Awakening Wed, 11/20/2013 by Andrew Gavin Marshall on the Occupy.com Website on November 20, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  World of Resistance Report: Davos Class Jittery Amid Growing Warnings of Global Unrest By Andrew Gavin Marshall on the Truth Out Website on July 7, 2014.

Press News: For Immediate Release

NEW YORK, NY (July 8, 2014) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Gennady Estraikh as the first Albert B. Ratner Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish Literature. Dr. Estraikh will be in residence for the fall semester 2014. The Albert B. Ratner Visiting Scholar in East European Continue reading YIVO News

1) I am struck by the upcoming announcement: Totem and Taboo After Auschwitz with Betty Fuks at Aprss-Coup’ The theme is as relevant today as it was then; try to attend.
Click Here to Read This Article Continue reading History: our DNA, our first addiction, Freud & James Joyce from Sasha Rolde on IP.net