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Review of Daniel Benveniste’s Libido, Culture, and Consciousness
Click Here to Read: Fleshing out Freud’s Undeveloped Psychosexual Stages by James L. Kelley Review of Daniel S. Benveniste’s Libido, Culture, and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud’s Totem and Taboo in Clio’s Psyche Spring 2023 Issue, pp. 384-396.
Click here to Purchase: Libido, Culture, and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud’s Totem and Taboo by Daniel Benveniste from IPBooks.
A Life in Yiddish Translation
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
Was a Jewish soldier the only man to get out of the Alamo alive?
Click Here to Read: Was a Jewish soldier the only man to get out of the Alamo alive? Louis Moses Rose: Coward or survivor? Fact or fiction? Jewish … or not? By Beth Harpaz on the Forward website on March 3, 2023.
The Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas. Image: Loadmaster (David R. Tribble). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into Ashkenazi Jewish History
Click Here to Read: Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into Ashkenazi Jewish History: Analysis reveals medieval genetic diversity, illuminates founder event By The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Communications on the Harvard Medical School website on November 30, 2022.
Erfurt, the Old Synagogue. Image: Dguendel Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Crime of the Centuries
Click Here to Read: Crime of the Centuries Tomb raiders, crooked art dealers, and museum curators fed Michael Steinhardt’s addiction to antiquities. Many were also stolen By Greg Donahue in New York Magazine on February 15, 2023.
Table support with a statue of Pan Lent by the Judy and Michael Steinhardt Collection, New York. Roman artwork of the Imperial period. Image: Marie-Lan Nguyen. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
How this portrait of Marc Chagall’s father finally wound up where it belonged
Click Here to Read: How this portrait of Marc Chagall’s father finally wound up where it belonged: The 1911 painting was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939 by By Cathryn J. Prince on the Forward website on February 13, 2023.
The Father, Marc Chagall, Paris (1911) Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme Image: Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
