Prolific composer and master jazz pianist Horace Silver dies at 85

By Tamar SchwartzJune 24, 2014 Obituaries

Click Here to Read: Prolific composer and master jazz pianist Horace Silver dies at 85 By John Andrews on the World Socialist Web Site on June 24, 2014.

Meetings of the AIP 2014-2015

By Tamar SchwartzJune 24, 2014 Announcements

Meetings of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis 2014 – 15
Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Topic: TBA
Presenters: Spyros Orfanos, PhD & Sophia Richman, PhD

Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Topic: TBA
Presenter: Sheldon Itzkowitz, PhD Continue reading Meetings of the AIP 2014-2015

Analytic Listening and Concepts at CFS

By Tamar SchwartzJune 23, 2014 Announcements

The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of
The Contemporary Freudian Society
Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice

We are pleased to offer a course on Analytic Listening and Concepts beginning on September 8, 2014. Continue reading Analytic Listening and Concepts at CFS

This Week in Yedies: News from YIVO

By Tamar SchwartzJune 23, 2014 Announcements, Books

YIVO Participates in JudaicaLink Encyclopedia Project

The first release of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe in Linked Open Data (LOD) format is now available at http://data.judaicalink.org/data/yivo/YIVO. The goal of the project is to enrich online reference works and digital humanities in Jewish studies by creating a framework for new links Continue reading This Week in Yedies: News from YIVO

Fifty years since the murder of the Mississippi civil rights workers

By Tamar SchwartzJune 23, 2014 General News

Click Here to Read: Fifty years since the murder of the Mississippi civil rights workers By Fred Mazelis on the World Socialist Web Site on June 23, 2014.

Murder victims Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner

Entre Nos (Between US) and Red Father: Aspects of US life and history

By Tamar SchwartzJune 23, 2014 Movies

Click Here to Read: Entre Nos (Between US) and Red Father: Aspects of US life and history By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on June 23, 2014.

Entre Nos

The Mystery of the Origins of Yiddish Will Never Be Solved

By Tamar SchwartzJune 23, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: The Mystery of the Origins of Yiddish Will Never Be Solved How an academic field—marked by petty fighting, misguided ideological debates, and personal proximity to tragedy—doomed itself By Batya Ungar-Sargon on the June 23, 2014.

Sigmund Freud Tried Thwarting Biographers. That Didn’t Stop Adam Phillips

By Tamar SchwartzJune 23, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: Sigmund Freud Tried Thwarting Biographers. That Didn’t Stop Adam Phillips.
The esteemed author talks about all the reasons the founder of psychoanalysis would have objected to a new examination of his life By Yale University Press on the Tablet Website on June 16, 2014.

Click Here to Read: On the Couch: Adam Phillips and Daphne Merkin on Freud on this Website. Continue reading Sigmund Freud Tried Thwarting Biographers. That Didn’t Stop Adam Phillips