Click Here to Read: Guitars Ring With Harmonious Humility, as Youth Meets Age by Julian Lage Sits in With Jim Hall Trio at Blue Note by Nate Chenin in the New York Times on April 18, 2012.
This Justifies a Life: Lanzmann’s Memoir and Yom HaShoah by Nathan Szajnberg
“This Justifies a Life: Lanzmann’s Memoir and Yom HaShoah”
By Nathan Szajnberg, MD and Arnold Richards, MD. April 17, 2012
To write such a book, one must live a full life. For Claude Lanzmann — Shoah’s filmmaker, Simone de Beauvoir’s lover, Sartre’s confidant — this is a memoir of several lives, all his.
And several near-deaths: as a fifteen-year old resistance fighter against the Nazis in France, ambushing SS convoys; near-drowning off Ceasaria’s Beach (feeling guilt for promises made); mad voyages at de Beauvoir’s demand; walking through a plate glass window to halt a parking citation (severing an iliac vessel); flying gliders or F16’s. Much was driven by passion, as is much of his life. Continue reading This Justifies a Life: Lanzmann’s Memoir and Yom HaShoah by Nathan Szajnberg
Kaddish by Leonard Bernstein with libretto by Shmuel Pisar
A Quote for Yom Ha Shoah – Holocaust Rememberance Day
“This was the end. This was the sum total of hundreds of generations of building, of Torah, of piety, of freethinking, of Zionism, of Bundism, of struggles and of battles, of the hopes of an entire people – this empty desert I looked around me at what had been the Jews of Warsaw. I felt one hope, and I feel it now. May this sea of emptiness bubble and boil, may it cry out eternal
condemnation of the murderers and pilagers, may it be forever the shame of the civilized world which saw and heard and chose to remain silent”
B Goldstein (2005). Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: the stars bear witness
Oakland CA AK Press
Epigraph: Richards, A (2012). Witnessing the Death of Yiddish Language and Culture. Holes in the Doorposts in The Power of Witnessing edited by N Goodman and M Meyers. Routledge New York
London,
Click Here for the Website for The Power of Witnessing
Inside the Session: What Really Happens in Psychotherapy
Click Here to Read: Review of Inside the Session: What Really Happens in Psychotherapy by Paul L. Wachtel. Reviewed by Robert Cohen, Ph.D. on the Matapsychology Reviews website on April 17th 2012.
Treating depression with electrodes inside the brain
A heart shattered by a glimpse into autism
I’m Carrying the Holocaust in My Pocket by Rivka Greenberg
Dear Friends,
My new documentary about the third generation titled I’m Carrying The Holocaust In My Pocket will be airing in New York this week. The documentary and my upcoming play Eavesdropping On Dreams are two variations of the same theme. Each piece helps to validate the other.
The documentary will premiere tomorrow Wednesday, April 18th, the eve of Yom Hashoah at 9:00 AM on Channel 34, and again at 2:00 PM on Channel 56.
I hope you will be able to tune in.
Regards,
Rivka
Continue reading I’m Carrying the Holocaust in My Pocket by Rivka Greenberg
Abraham Sutzkever’s Poem “To My Child” from Anna Ornstein’s Plenary
The Poem “To My Child” by Abraham Sutzkever was used in Anna Ornstein’s Plenary at the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Meetings at the Waldorf Astoria on January 19th, 2008.
Click Here to Read the Poem in English.
Clicnk Here to Read the Poem in Yiddish.
Click Here for: A Review Abraham Suztkever’s Poetry by Ruth Wisse on The National Yiddish Book Center Website.
“We Have Nothing to Fear, But . . .
“We have nothing to fear, but…”;
Makari on the Anxieties in Today’s NYTimes
Makari’s brief but articulate and scholarly historical sweep about anxiety in today’s NYTimes Opinionator puts psychoanalysis back in play about the anxieties. After a short vignette, Makari runs through time to give a history of the anxieties, from Latin “anxietas,” through Catholic priest’s interventions, short-circuited by the Reformation, and the medicalization of this experience, beginning in 1621. Ultimately, Makari, thinking of his prospective patient, prepares himself for the “worry … a thread that led back to psychic burdens” and invites him into his office. Listen to how he invites us to think more carefully about our anxieties, including our relevance in today’s clinical practice.
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Click Here to Read: In the Arcadian Woods By George Makari in the New York Times on April 16, 2012.