Writer’s Wednesday: John Kerr

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Click Here to Read:  John Kerr on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  Most Dangerous Story: How a Portlander rewrote the history of psychoanalysis By Carl Currie on the Bollard.com website on  April 4, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  The Real Freud Revealed: A long-lost memoir by one of Freud’s disciples has recently been published and reveals a man full of dark contradictions. John Kerr, who authored the book on which the film A Dangerous Method is based, explores this story by John Kerr on the Daily Beast Website on November 25, 2011. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: John Kerr

Writer’s Wednesday: Norman Mailer

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Click Here to Read: How Mailer Became “Mailer” The Writer as Private and Public Character By Morris Dickstein on the Mailer Review.org website.

Click Here to Read: Norman Mailer Book Reviews and His Own Writings on the New York Review of Books Website.

Click Here to Read: Norman Mailer: Reviews of Norman Mailer’s Books in The New York Times. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Norman Mailer

Writer’s Wednesday: Svetlana Alexievich

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Click Here to Read:  Svetlana Alexievich on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  Svetlana Alexievich’s Noble Prize Speech on the Noble Prize.org website.

Click Here to Read:  Review: In ‘Secondhand Time,’ Voices From a Lost Russia By Dwight Garner in The New York Times on May 24, 2016.

Click Here to Read: From ‘Second-Hand Time’ by Svetlana Alexievich in The Times Literary Supplement on May 11, 2016. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Svetlana Alexievich

Writer’s Wednesday: Itzik Manger

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Click Here to Read: Itzik Manger on Wikipedia.

Click Here to View: Itzik Manger reads “There is a tree that stands” on YouTube. This video is in Yiddish.

Click Here to Read: Itzik Manger on the Fifty Years of Modern Poetry in Translation website.

Click Here to Read: Itzik Manger’s Prayer on the Poetry in Hell website from Warsaw Ghetto Poems from the Ringelblum Archives. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Itzik Manger

Writer’s Wednesday: Sholem Aleichem

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Click Here to Read:  Sholem Aleichem on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Sholem Aleichem’s last appearance: Philadelphia, 100 years ago by Andrew Cassel on the Philly.com website on March 3, 2016.

Click Here to Read:  Sholem Aleichem and then some, Review of The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem by Jeffrey Dauber, Reviewed By Sheila Orysiek on the San Diego Jewish World Website on December 28, 2014. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Sholem Aleichem

Writer’s Wednesday: Sholem Asch

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Click Here to Read:  Sholem Asch on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Asch, Sholem on the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe Wesbite.

Click Here to Read: The God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch on the US Archive.org website

Click Here to Read: Asch’s Passion: A popular Yiddish novelist strove for immortality by taking on Jesus, but it cost him his core audience and made him a marked man By Ellen Umansky on the Tablet Website on April 24, 2007. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Sholem Asch

Writer’s Wednesday: Chaim Grade

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Click Here to Read:  Chaim Grade on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Grade, Chaim on the YIVO Encylopedia of Jews Eastern Europe website.

Click Here to Read: In Yiddish Author’s Papers, Potential Gold By Joseph Berger in The New York Times on May 17, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Modernity vs. Orthodoxy in Chaim Grade’s “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyer by Dr. Adam Gregerman on the Institute Islamic Christian and Jewish Studies website on November 18, 2012. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Chaim Grade