Burning Down the House

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 20, 2025November 20, 2025 History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Burning Down the House: Avgi Saketopoulou’s lecture “Fighting Fire with Fire” left me wondering if there may be more than one way to burn by Adam Blum on the TAP website on November 20, 2025.

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By Adam Blum

The Erikson Institute Turns 30: Psychoanalysis meets the world at the Austen Riggs Center

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 23, 2025October 23, 2025 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Erikson Institute Turns 30: Psychoanalysis meets the world at the Austen Riggs Center By Aaron M. Beatty in The American Psychoanalyst Magazine.

Image: Joe Mabel. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 29, 2025September 29, 2025 Arts, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera. To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews By Andrew Silow-Carroll on the Jewish Telegraph website on September 17, 2025.

A brief history of Babi Yar, where Nazis massacred Jews, Soviets kept silence and now Ukraine says Russia fired a missile

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 29, 2025September 29, 2025 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: A brief history of Babi Yar, where Nazis massacred Jews, Soviets kept silence and now Ukraine says Russia fired a missile by Jeffrey Veidlinger on the Conversation website on March 7, 2022.

Babi Yar Holocaust memoria Image:Віктор Полянко Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Freud, Herzl, and Netanyahu Discuss the Jewish Question

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 25, 2025September 25, 2025 History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Freud, Herzl, and Netanyahu Discuss the Jewish Question (an a.i.-generated play)–Submitted by Robert L. Lippman.

Image: Jewish Chronicle1896. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A divine comedy for dark times: How Kevin Young’s “Night Watch” looks back to Dante for some very modern lessons

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Books, History, Literature

Clck Here to Read : A divine comedy for dark times: How Kevin Young’s “Night Watch” looks back to Dante for some very modern lessons by Leigh Haber and The Ink on The Ink website.

Transnistria’s Jews find themselves caught in a Soviet time warp as Ukraine war rages next door

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 1, 2025 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Transnistria’s Jews find themselves caught in a Soviet time warp as Ukraine war rages next door: The breakaway republic within Moldova is incredibly impoverished By Larry Luxner on the JTA website on August 26, 2025.

Transnistria-map Image: Bogdangiusca at English Wikipedia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.