Dead Sea reveals four 1,900-year-old Roman swords in cave

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 7, 2023September 7, 2023 History

Click Here to Read: Dead Sea reveals four 1,900-year-old Roman swords in caveBy David Gritten on the BBC News website on September 7, 2023,

View of the Dead Sea from a Cave at Qumran Image: Eric Matson – Matson Photo Service. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

For 30 years, a memorial to Nazi collaborators sat largely unnoticed just outside Philadelphia.

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 4, 2023September 4, 2023 History

Click Here to Read: For 30 years, a memorial to Nazi collaborators sat largely unnoticed just outside Philadelphia. Now it’s drawing outrage.
Elkins Park in Montgomery County has several synagogues … and one large monument to Nazi collaborators. Many people had no idea it existed until recently by William Bender and Ryan W. Briggs in the Philadelphia Inquirer on September 3, 2023.

Yiddish is Having a Moment

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 4, 2023September 4, 2023 History, Literature

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.

300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 10, 2023August 10, 2023 History, Science

Click Here to Read: 300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before By Hafsa Khalil and Jack Guy, on the CNN website on August 10, 2023

Ancient Skull Found in China Is Unlike Any Human Seen Before From YouTube.

LAISPIS: Our History

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 28, 2023July 28, 2023 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: LAISPIS: Our History on the LSIOPIS website.

Review of Daniel Benveniste’s Libido, Culture, and Consciousness

By Tamar SchwartzJune 13, 2023June 13, 2023 History, Psychoanalysis

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

By Tamar SchwartzMay 18, 2023May 18, 2023 Books, History, Literature

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