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Becoming Soviet Jews: Interview with Elissa Bemporad

On June 16, 2013, Elissa Bemporad spoke at YIVO about her new book, Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press), a case study of the Sovietization of Jews in the former Pale of Settlement. The book reveals the ways in which Jews acculturated to Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s. Read more…

Yiddish with Footnotes: Vilna 1913
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Why Work Nas Become Suffering with Gérard Haddad at Après-Coup

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Friday, January 17, 2014, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
WHY WORK HAS BECOME SUFFERING, Foundations of Psychoanalysis
Gérard Haddad

What place does work have in the unconscious? Today, when mass unemployment and job burnout are critical social issues, psychoanalysis must grapple with the pains and pleasures work entails, first, perhaps by comparing the basic structures of farm labor and dream work. Continue reading Why Work Nas Become Suffering with Gérard Haddad at Après-Coup

Christie’s aides were warned within hours that ‘Bridgegate’ lane closures were putting lives at risk

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Click Here to Read:  Christie’s aides were warned within hours that ‘Bridgegate’ lane closures were putting lives at risk . . . but they kept traffic snarled for FOUR DAYS, documents reveal By David  Martosky on the U.K. Mail Website on  January 10, 2014

New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie is under pressure following revelations that his administration may have closed highway lanes to exact political retribution against a Democratic mayor

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The genius with 500 lovers

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Click Here to Read:   The genius with 500 lovers: Awesomely gifted, magnetically attractive. But artist Lucian Freud, as this new biography reveals, was also a frighteningly ruthless seducer of women by Geordie Greig  on the UK Mail Online website on  September 13, 2013.

Artist’s muse: Lucian Freud poses with Alexi Williams-Wynn, a lover, for a photo entitled The Painter Surprised

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