The Cool Kids: Self-mutilation as a Jewish cultural strategy and the sad history of the Yevsektsiya

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 16, 2019September 16, 2019 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Cool Kids: Self-mutilation as a Jewish cultural strategy and the sad history of the Yevsektsiya By Dara Horn on the Tablet website on September 6, 2019.

The presidium of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1920. Sitting (from left): Abel Yenukidze, Mikhail Kalinin, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky, Mikhail Lashevich, Lev Kamenev, Evgeny Preobrazhensky, Leonid Serebryakov, Vladimir Lenin and Alexei Rykov. Standing: Nikolay Krestinsky, Vladimir Milyutin, Ivar Smilga.

In the “Freud Laboratory”: The Yiddish Translation and Reception of Psychoanalysis

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 26, 2019August 26, 2019 History, Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: In the “Freud Laboratory”: The Yiddish Translation and Reception of Psychoanalysis with Naomi Seidman at YIVO on YouTube.

Who Were the Neolithic People That Enabled the Rise of Ancient Egypt?

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 19, 2019August 19, 2019 History

Click Here to Read and Listen to: Who Were the Neolithic People That Enabled the Rise of Ancient Egypt? By Jacek Kabacinski, Czekaj- Zastawny Agnieszka & Joel D. Irish on the Real Clear Science website on August 2, 2019.

Photo: Hanay. Dagon Museum, Downtown, Haifa, Israel The Museum is dedicated to the history of grain product. Sickle made of flint, Egypt, Naqada period, end of the fourth millennium BC. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Wandering Star of Yiddish Lit: Debora Vogel was a brilliant multilingual poet and aesthete who is best known as the muse of Bruno Schulz

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 13, 2019August 13, 2019 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Wandering Star of Yiddish Lit: Debora Vogel was a brilliant multilingual poet and aesthete who is best known as the muse of Bruno Schulz. But her work deserves a reading—in German, Polish, Hebrew, and especially Yiddish By Mersiha Bruncevic on the Tablet website on August 13, 2019.

Debora Vogel. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Do Jews Carry Trauma in Our Genes?

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 12, 2019August 12, 2019 History, Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Do Jews Carry Trauma in Our Genes? A Conversation With Rachel Yehuda. The innovative neuroscientist discusses how the Holocaust, famine, and other catastrophic experiences can affect our DNA By David Samuels on the Tablet website on December 11, 2014.

Graves, guilt and genius: Inside Lithuania’s struggle with its checkered past

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 8, 2019August 8, 2019 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Graves, guilt and genius: Inside Lithuania’s struggle with its checkered past: Once an epicenter of Jewish life, the Baltic state still refuses to come clean about its dark history, critics charge. But recent developments show it is a work in progress On the Times of Israel website.

Image: Peter Fitzgerald. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How Mosquitoes Helped Shape the Course of Human History

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 7, 2019August 7, 2019 History, Science

Click Here to Read: How Mosquitoes Helped Shape the Course of Human History: Historian and author Timothy Winegard discusses the way mosquitoes have played a major role in battles, genetics and the gin and tonic By Emily Toomey on the Smithsonian Magazine website on August 5, 2019.

Photo: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.