A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them

Click Here to Read: A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them. A “contemporary, spirited” version of Shakespeare’s play opens off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company By  Joseph Strauss November 20, 2024.

Shakespeare’s comedy of the Merchant of Venice.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

New From IPBooks: Our Time is Up: A Novel by Roberta Satow

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The novel is compelling and engaging. The narrative is daring, bold, courageous, and, necessarily, delightfully character-driven. Roberta Satow offers the reader the process of her personal journey of becoming a psychoanalyst. What does that process entail? Each psychoanalyst’s journey is unique, befitting the very nature of psychoanalysis, and yet each unique journey shares something in common with every other psychoanalytic journey – it is deeply personal. Thus, Satow’s novel/memoir  exploring her own journey must involve describing her own personal issues, her own psychoanalysis, her feelings about, and relationship with, her psychoanalyst, and, ultimately, while working with her supervisor,  the process of conducting psychoanalysis with people referred to her while she was attending a psychoanalytic institute. –From the review by Merle Molofsky of Our Time is Up.

Click Here to Read: Merle Molofsky’s review of Our Time is Up: A Novel.

“Only very rarely is the elusive magic of psychotherapy captured in novels/films/professional writings. But this brilliant novel/memoir really evokes what it’s like to be a patient/what it’s like to be a therapist. I laughed/I cried/I learned. . . . Must read.”
—Allen James Frances, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Adult Psychiatry & Psychology Division, Duke University

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He Made a Magazine, 95 Issues, While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic

Click Here to Read: He Made a Magazine, 95 Issues, While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic: The people who hid Curt Bloch, a German Jew, in the crawl space of a Dutch home gave him both food and the materials he needed to make a highly creative magazine now drawing attention By Nina Siegal in the New York Times on December 18, 2023.

Birds eye view of Enschede Image: Kleuske  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.