Category: History

Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism
By Categories: History, Science

Click Here to Read: Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted By Jeremy DeSilva in the Scientific American issue of November 1, 2022.

Cast of the “Laetoli footprints” — the earliest known human footprints in the world, on display in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. These footprints are those of Australopithecus afarensis. Image: Tim Evanson.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

 

How a teenage photographer captured a vanishing world before the Holocaust:
By Categories: Arts, History

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.

Review of Raymond J. Lawrence’s Book: Harry Stack Sullivan and Anton T. Boisen Comrades and Revolutionaries in Psychotherapy
By Categories: Books, History, Psychoanalysis

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.

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The Weekly Reader from the Yiddish Book Center
By Categories: Arts, History, Literature

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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