The Ghetto: 503 years after the first Jewish enclave was instituted in Venice, what does the word ‘ghetto’ mean today?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 26, 2019March 26, 2019 History

Click Here to Read: The Ghetto: 503 years after the first Jewish enclave was instituted in Venice, what does the word ‘ghetto’ mean today? By Benjamin Ravid on the Tablet website on March 26, 2019.

Street in the Venetian Ghetto, Venice, containing various Jewish food and other stores. Photo: Ethan Doyle White. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Winston’s Brush with History

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 22, 2019March 22, 2019 Arts, Books, History, Politics

Click here to Read: Winston’s Brush with History: by Dominic Green
A review of Churchill: The Statesman as Artist, by David Cannadine on the New Criterion website in April 2019.

The Magdeburg Sphere

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 20, 2019March 20, 2019 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Magdeburg Sphere by Marcel Cohen. Remarks given at the Medem Library of the Maison de la Culture Yiddish in Paris on 16 June 2011 as part of a series of talks on “Writing the Catastrophe: Witnessing and Fiction.” Translated by Steven Jaron on the Fortnightly Review website.

The origins of racism

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 20, 2019March 20, 2019 History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The origins of racism By Henry Idema on the Holland Sentinel website on March 19, 2019. Image: ElIndignado653. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Paging Dr. Freud: Remembering Rockville’s Chestnut Lodge

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 18, 2019March 18, 2019 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Paging Dr. Freud: Remembering Rockville’s Chestnut Lodge By John Kelly in the Washington Post on March 16, 2019.

Photographic postcard of Chestnut Lodge, Rockville, Maryland, USA. Coloured by hand and postmarked 1909. Public Domain via WikimediaCommons

How Fishele Died by Nathan Szajnberg

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 10, 2019March 10, 2019 Books, History

Click Here to Read: How Fishele Died by Nathan Szajnberg. Kalinithi Award Winner 2019: 2d Place To appear in Stanford Medical School Pegasus Review.

Click Here to Purchase: Sheba and Solomon’s Return: Ethiopian Children in Israel by Nathan Szajnberg on IPBooks.net

Freud’s a fraud? 110 unpublished Einstein documents unveiled by Hebrew U

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 7, 2019March 7, 2019 History, Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Freud’s a fraud? 110 unpublished Einstein documents unveiled by Hebrew U: Released ahead of what would be physicist’s 140th birthday, trove includes 1935 letter expressing fear of war in Europe and appearing to dismiss Sigmund Freud as a ‘simple swindle’ By Michael Bachner On the Times of Israel website on March 6, 2019.

Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921. Photo: Ferdinand Schmutzer (1870–1928) . Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons