This Sunday at YIVO
By Categories: Announcements, Art, Music

Emanuel Ringelblum

SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013 | 1:00pm
Annual Mordkhe Schaechter Memorial Program
Co-sponsored by the League for Yiddish
MEMORIAL PROGRAM
Admission: Free; RSVP Required: www.yivo.org/reservations

Most of this program will be held in Yiddish.

Dr. Samuel Kassow (Professor of History, Trinity College)
“A Historian in the Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg-Shabes Archive”

Emanuel Ringelblum

Between 1940 and 1943 Emanuel Ringelblum organized and directed the Oyneg Shabes Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. Of the 60 people who worked in the Continue reading This Sunday at YIVO

Our Yiddish Theatre, Ourselves
By Categories: Books, Plays

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Click Here to Read:  Our Yiddish Theatre, Ourselves: Review of Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business edited by Joel Berkowitz, Barbara Henry, reviewed Stuart Hecht.

This article originally appeared as Stuart Hecht (2013). Review of Berkowitz, Joel; Henry, Barbara, eds., Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business. H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews. June, 2013 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Philosophy Thursday
By Categories: Philosophy Thursday

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PeterUngerThis inaugurates a bimonthly category Philosophy Thursday.  The contribution is about the philosophy of Derek Parfit.  It was selected for us by our philosophy editer, Peter Unger, who is a Professor of  Philosophy  of New York University.

Derek Parfit                    Peter Unger

Click Here to Read:  How to Be Good by Larrisa MacFarquhar in the New Yorker on September 5, 2011, p. 42.

Click Here to View:  Derek Parfit – Brainspotting 1/2.

Click Here to Read:  Derik Parfit’s Wikipedia page.

 

 

Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death
By Categories: Books

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” Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death, a Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment” has been recommended for purchase for the hematology and oncology fellows at the Mt Sinai Medical Center by Janice Gabrilove MD, Chief of Neoplastic Diseases. She has once again also requested that her fellows attend the annual lectures for the PGY 4 Psychiatry Residents and C- L fellows on Psycho – oncology given by Norman Straker.  Dr Straker is a member of the faculty of the NY Psychoanalytic and has been teaching at Mount Sinai as part of the collaboration between the Institute and Psychiatry Department. The endorsement of his recent book by the Chief of Neoplastic Diseases, a world renown cancer researcher is validation for a renewed effort by psychoanalysts for a greater role in collaborating with their medical colleagues in the treatment of chronic diseases.

Portland Jewish Film Festival: “Out in the Dark”
By Categories: Movies

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The Portland Jewish Film Festival into its 2nd week brings” Out in the Dark” to unsettle,make uncomfortable,make memorable the price the people of Israel and Palestine pay for the hell they find themselves in the ongoing hatred and war we dub the israeli/palestinian conflict.
There are thousands of painful stories. This one is about gay men…who in the midEast of the world find conflict anyhow..here made worse by the political account. Not a happy movie, but an exceedingly well told one. Continue reading Portland Jewish Film Festival: “Out in the Dark”