Click Here to Read: Anorexia May Be Habit, Not Willpower, Study Finds By Erica Goode in The New York Times on October 12, 2015.
The Ghetto is Here: On the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto, the author of the new Holocaust history ‘Black Earth’ reads the writing on the wall
This Day in Jewish History, 1802 West Point Graduates Its First Officers, Half of Them Jewish
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Simeon Magruder Levy would distinguish himself in battle but, crippled by rheumatism, wound up resigning his commission by David B. Green on the Ha’aretz website on October 12, 2015.
West Point, as seen from Phillipstown, 1831: It was evidently quite the pastoral place back then. By William James Bennett (1787-1844).Library of Congress
The soul of the human machine by George Makari
Yiddish Theatre LIVES! Death of a Salesman
Click Here to Read: Discovered in Translation: Actor Avi Hoffman Plays a Yiddish-Speaking Willy Loman on the Stage Buddy website.
Click Here to Read: Arthur Miller’s 100th birthday, a rebirth on Broadway on the Newsday website on October 6,2015.
Click Here to Read: Willy Loman as a Wandering Jew in New Yiddish Rep’s ‘Death of a Salesman on The American Theatre.org website on October 9, 2015. Continue reading Yiddish Theatre LIVES! Death of a Salesman
Movies Monday: The Killing
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Click Here to Read: The Killing review – Philip French on Stanley Kubrick’s influential breakthrough movie on the Guardian website on March 1, 2015.
Click Here to Read: The Killing (1956)z: Screen: ‘The Killing’; New Film at the Mayfair Concerns a Robbery The Cast By A.H. Weiler on The New York Times Continue reading Movies Monday: The Killing
SEMINAR: Savoir-faire and the Frame of the Cure, Part III, Paola Mieli at Apres-Coup
Life as a Young Rural Chinese Boy
Black Mass: The story of Whitey Bulger, gangster and FBI informant
Psychology Sunday: Steven Pinker
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Click Here to Read: Is Violence History? By Peter Singer in The New York Times on October 6, 2011
Click Here to Read: Steven Pinker: ‘Many of the alleged rules of writing are actually superstitions’
Bad English has always been with us, but clarity and style are far more important than observing dusty usage diktats by Steven Pinker on the Guardian website on October 6, 2015. Continue reading Psychology Sunday: Steven Pinker