Séance at Bergasse 19 by Robert Lippman

By Tamar SchwartzJune 12, 2020June 12, 2020 History, Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Séance at Bergasse 19 Excerpt from “The Struggle Is Not Yet Over” in The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays Robert L. Lippman, Ph.D.
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The Man Behind ‘The Dybbuk’: Rokhl’s Golden City: S. An-sky’s ethnographic expedition

By Tamar SchwartzJune 11, 2020June 11, 2020 Arts, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Man Behind ‘The Dybbuk’: Rokhl’s Golden City: S. An-sky’s ethnographic expedition by Rokhl Kafrissen on the Tablet website on June 10, 2020.
A photograph of w:The Dybbuk’s Hebrew Premiere: w:Habima Theatre (then operating in Sekretaryova Theater, Nizhny Kislovskaya 6, close to w:Bolshoy Kislovsky Lane, w:Moscow), 31 January 1922. On the stage: w:Hanna Rovina as Leah, the possessed bride; Nahum Zemach as the Tzaddik. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Yiddish Illustrations: “From Chagall to Diego Rivera”

By Tamar SchwartzJune 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Arts, Literature

Click Here to Read: Yiddish Illustrations: “From Chagall to Diego Rivera” A Personal Top Ten by David Mazower on the Yiddish Book Center website.

POETRY MONDAY: JUNE 1, 2020

By Tamar SchwartzJune 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Literature

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JIM HABA

Good morning, everyone. A bit cooler today, in our new two-seasons-only weather here in the northeastern U.S. I hope you’re still well.
Full disclosure: Our poet today is one we’ve featured before (back in 2010, actually), and also my co-editor for an anthology just released by IPBooks: What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration. But there’s a bigger reason for my re-introducing you to Jim Haba today. When you see the book you’ll note that the striking cover is from a painting by Erica Barton Haba, Jim’s wife and longtime artistic partner, a dear person lost to all of us just a few months ago.

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Shavuot

By Tamar SchwartzMay 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Arts, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Holiday Edition: Shavuot on the Tablet website on May 27, 2020.
Western Wall, Jerusalem, Shavuot. Image: Daniel Majewski. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Philip Roth Archive

By Tamar SchwartzMay 26, 2020May 26, 2020 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Philip Roth Archive: A fan’s obsessive rummage through the letters and papers of the writer who died two years ago today reveals a playful, funny, brilliant man by Jesse Tisch on the Table website on May 22, 2020.

YIVO’s “Old Friend and Teacher”: Simon Dubnow and his Relationship to the Yiddish

By Tamar SchwartzMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: YIVO’s “Old Friend and Teacher”: Simon Dubnow and his Relationship to the Yiddish by Cecile E. Kuznitz from the Scientific Institute Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook XV 2016. Note: The file starts with the Yearbook front matter.