Movie Monday: Orson Welles, The Trial
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Click Here to Read: The Trial (1962 film) on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Orson Welles’ ‘The Trial’ Is a Study in Transcendental Sociology
By Andrew Grossman on the PopMatters website on November 7, 2013.

Click Here to Read: The Trial to air on TMC on February 19, 2015 at 5:00pm.

Click Here to View: Watch The Trial (1962), Orson Welles’ Worst or Best Film, Adapted From Kafka’s Classic Work in Film on the Open Culture website on January 10th, 2014. Continue reading Movie Monday: Orson Welles, The Trial

Péter Forgács’ Memory Art Brings Phantoms of Eastern Europe to Light
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Click Here to Read:  Péter Forgács’ Memory Art Brings Phantoms of Eastern Europe to Light  ‘Letters to Afar’ is the latest of an emergent and haunting new form, Jewish material-memory film By J. Hoberman on the Tablet Website on November 20, 2014.

Still from a Polish home movie, c. 1920s-1930s. (Photo courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York.)

Psychoanalytic Standards: Highest or Good Enough by Lee Jaffe
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Psychoanalytic Standards: Highest or Good Enough

There is disagreement amongst psychoanalysts about the aspirations that we should strive for in recruiting candidates, graduating analysts, and appointing training analysts. Some believe we should strive for excellence and the HIGHEST STANDARDS, while others believe we should strive for GOOD ENOUGH STANDARDS. I regretfully think, for several reasons, that striving for the HIGHEST standards is a fatally flawed goal –and know that I make these comments as a Training Analyst and Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Board of Professional Standards–thus, someone who has supposedly met the HIGHEST standards: Continue reading Psychoanalytic Standards: Highest or Good Enough by Lee Jaffe

Poetry Monday: Gigi Marks
By Categories: Poetry

POETRY MONDAY: January 4, 2015

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Gigi Marks

Welcome back, everyone, and Happy New Year!

We have some lovely new poems for you this morning.

Gigi Marks lives in Ithaca, New York.  Formerly a professor at Ithaca College, she now works with a range of people, aged 8 to 90 plus, who would like to develop their writing “with craft and authenticity.” Her other interests, she tells us, “are more home-based, with a family who all help to raise gardens, bees, sheep, a couple of goats, and a variety of small mammals.”

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Start 2015 Right: January at YIVO!
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Start 2015 right –
at the 4th Annual Winter Program Keynote!
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Poets as Smugglers: Sutzkever, Kaczerginski, and How the Remnants of the YIVO Archive Reached New York
Monday, January 5 | 6:30pm | Location: YIVO Institute
YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization Keynote Address

YIVO’s Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar David Fishman tells the dramatic story of how poets Kaczerginski and Sutzkever rescued YIVO’s treasures from the Vilnius Jewish Continue reading Start 2015 Right: January at YIVO!