Room 222 and Room Round Table

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EDITORIAL
Struck Anew

Shock occasions change. Five years ago ROOM flashed into being as an immediate response to the 2016 US election. Psychoanalysts who had never written before felt compelled to write.       

ROOM has remained a participatory community platform, grounded in a psychoanalytic understanding of how change happens. Each issue archives a new moment. Each is a “working-through” of that which has already passed.   

But now we are struck anew. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine occurred during the final weeks of production of this anniversary issue. Still, the questions posed by the contributors in ROOM 2.22 are eerily prescient and speak collectively for all of us. Each looks toward a future none can envision.
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From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

Click Here to Read:  From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online by Andrew Silow-Carroll  on the Jewish News of Northern California website on  January 11, 2022. Y
Yiddish Translation of All Quiet on the Western Front.  Image: Shalom Books.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.