Click Here to Listen to: A Life in Yiddish Translation. Curt Leviant, professor, novelist, and translator, speaks with The Shmooze about his life translating the work of Sholem Aleichem and Chaim Grade, and he shares some stories about his encounters with Nobel laureates. MAY 16, 2023 EPISODE 352 28 MIN GUEST: CURT LEVIANTHOST: LISA NEWMAN.
Curt Leviant
Click Here to Read: Review of the Way it Ends in the Scarsdale Inquirer.
Ted Jacobs’s new novel, The Way it Ends, grips the reader from its opening pages. Jacobs’s protagonist Dr. Strickman, a psychoanalyst turned amateur gumshoe, sets off to uncover how his brother died–murder or suicide? A subplot of Israeli Palestinian conflict masterfully adds depth and tension to this engaging, dark and, yet, humorous tale.
—KERRY MALAWISTA, PHD author of the novel, Meet the Moon.
“A great read that touches the heart. As moving as it is intriguing.”
—ANDREW POTOK, author of Ordinary Daylight
THEODORE J. JACOBS, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Training and Supervising Analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and The Institute for Psychoanalytic Education where he is also a child supervising analyst.
Dr. Jacobs attended Yale University (BA) with a major in English, and The University of Chicago School of Medicine, MD, 1957. He took his training in psychoanalysis (adult and child) at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and his psychiatric residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of Communication in the Analytic Situation and The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change, 70 papers, his first novel The Year of Durocher, and also republished The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situation with IPBooks. He is on the editorial board of several analytic journals.
About Tales of the Unconscious:
Tales from the Unconscious is a collection of stories from the anarchic world of the unconscious. It is for anyone interested in the inner life, as described by psychoanalysis, especially if you are approaching the ideas for the first time. The stories attempt to illustrate the vicissitudes of our inner lives and the unconscious by which we live..There are three short books in one:
Expectations, short stories about love—unrequited, failed, impossible, and cruel. In Provocations, the theme is the provocative arousal of emotions in another person. And Audacities is a collection about the audacity of suicide that affects many lives. I try to show how cruelty, unkindness, and envy creep into all aspects of life. After a suicide, nothing is resolved.
Christopher Gibson is a psychoanalyst, a child analyst, a training analyst of the Swedish Psychoanalytical Association, and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He practices and teaches in Gothenburg, Sweden.
