Click here to Read; Yiddish is Having a Moment by Ilan Stavans in The New York Times on September 2, 2023.Proposed Yiddish Flag. Image: S.fuer. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before
LAISPIS: Our History
\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.
