lick Here to Read: How a teenage photographer captured a vanishing world before the Holocaust: Richard Scheuer’s images of ordinary life in 1934 are both unsettling and prescient By Simi Horwitz on the Forward website on October 12, 2022.
Jews working in one of the manufacturing plants (so called szops) in the Warsaw Ghetto/ Image: Stanisław Poznański (oprac./edit.), Walka. Śmierć. Pamięć 1939-1945. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: When Harvard psychologists declared war on Sigmund Freud, Freud won: Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors by Tim Brinkhof on the Big Think website on September 27, 2022.
Click Here to Read: Review of Raymond J. Lawrence’s Book: Harry Stack Sullivan and Anton T. Boisen Comrades and Revolutionaries in Psychotherapy by Charla Hayden on the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy website.
Click Here to Purchase Harry Stack Sullivan and Anton T. Boisen Comrades and Revolutionaries in Psychotherapy Raymond J. Lawrence from IPBooks.
Click Here to Read: Groundbreaking album breathes new life into nearly abandoned Jewish musical art: Jeremiah Lockwood sought to revive the early 20th century style of cantorial music; he found unexpected partners in the Brooklyn Hasidic community By Zach Golden on the Forward website on August 11, 2022.
The long and complicated history of Jews in Ukraine was not always a happy one, but it would be a mistake to think of it as an unmitigated series of upheavals. To the contrary, the region gave rise to some of the greatest achievements of Jewish literature and culture, as the collections of the Yiddish Book Center bear witness. As exhibit A, you can listen to this program of readings and songs from Yiddish works in translation by Yiddish writers from Ukraine including Blume Lempel, Mendel Osherowitz, Dora Shulner, and Sholem Aleichem.
View our map of Yiddish writers who were born or lived or worked in Ukraine
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Click Here to Read: Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky Edited by
Glenn Dynner and François Guesnet.
Building of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw viewed from Karmelicka Street Image: Wojciech Kryński. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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