Philosophy Thursday: Ludwik Fleck

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Click Here to Read: Ludwik Fleck on the Wikipedia website.

Click Here to Read:  Ludwik Fleck on the Stanford  Encyclopedia of Philosophy website.

Click Here to Read:   The 50th Anniversary Leo Baeck Lecture:  Sociology, and Psychoanalysis: The Development of Scientific Knowledge by Jews in the Hapsburg Empire Freud, Brill and Fleck by Arnold Richards.

Click Here to Read:  Fleck Is Back: Before Popper, Kuhn & Feyerabend, there Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Ludwik Fleck

Siblings: What they do With Us, To Us, For Us and Against Us” with Dr. Philip Herschenfeld at NYPSI

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New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
New York
www.nypsi.org

Wednesday, March 12 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Siblings: What they do With Us, To Us, For Us and Against Us” with Dr. Philip Herschenfeld Continue reading Siblings: What they do With Us, To Us, For Us and Against Us” with Dr. Philip Herschenfeld at NYPSI

Hannah, Same Both Ways

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HANNAH, SAME BOTH WAYS by Hannah Rose
Indepenpress Publishing Ltd (April 29, 2013), Reviewed by Naomi Miller

This is a book written, or rather dictated, by a young women who, at the age of fifteen, was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal chord that left her paralyzed from the neck down. This followed experiencing severe pains in her shoulders and back just as she was preparing to go on a school trip to France. Continue reading Hannah, Same Both Ways

The Flight of the Ibis with Alan Roland at NPAP

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THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE OF NPAP
Presents a DVD of a Play
FLIGHT OF THE IBIS
Muslims, Jews, and Christians in 10th Century Cordoba
By Alan Roland, Ph.D.
Sunday, March 9, 6:30 to 8:30 PM
NPAP, 40 West 13 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues), Buzzers 216 & 217
Admission is Free

Flight of the Ibis is a musical drama with dance set in the Golden Age of the Jews in the Umayyad Caliphate in 10th century Cordoba, Spain. The Continue reading The Flight of the Ibis with Alan Roland at NPAP

Freud and the Marranos: How Yosef H. Yerushalmi Gave Voice to Jews Caught Between Worlds

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Click Here to Read:  Freud and the Marranos: How Yosef H. Yerushalmi Gave Voice to Jews Caught Between Worlds Two new books explore the complex legacy and rich life of the great Jewish historian of conversos and Marranos By David N. Myers  on The Tablet website on  February 10, 2014.

Original photo American Sephardi Federation via Center for Jewish History/Flickr)

Shoah’s’ Claude Lanzmann returns to ‘The Last of the Unjust’

la-et-mn-shoahs-claude-lanzmann-returns-to-the-001Click Here to Read:  ‘Shoah’s’ Claude Lanzmann returns to ‘The Last of the Unjust’ By Mark Olsen in The Los Angeles Times on February 11, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Review of : The Patagonian Hare by Claude Lanzmann,  Reviewed by Richard Davenport-Hines on the Teleghraph website on 06 March 06,  2012.

French director Claude Lanzmann speaks to the media after the screening of his latest film, “The Last of the Unjust,” in Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez / AFP/Getty Images / January 21, 2014)