POETRY MONDAY: January 7, 2019

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 7, 2019January 10, 2019 Literature

Patty Crane

A happy, healthy and hopeful New Year, everyone. We have a delightful poetry surprise for you this morning. Although we have featured poets who are also translators, I know that we haven’t yet had poems in Swedish. Since this is an international website, I also know that those of you who are Swedish speakers yourselves must of course be familiar with the work of Nobel prize-winning poet, Tomas Tranströmer. His volume of selected Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: January 7, 2019

James Baldwin’s Harlem Through a Child’s Eyes

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 6, 2019January 6, 2019 Literature

Click Here to Read: James Baldwin’s Harlem Through a Child’s Eyes by
Gabrielle Bellot on The New York Review of Books website on Januar 3, 2019.

Aharon Appelfeld, a Memory

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 6, 2019 Literature

Click Here to Read: Aharon Appelfeld, a Memory: One year after the death of the great writer, his humanity still shines By Natalia A. Feduschak on the Tablet website on January 4, 2019.

Yiddish Heroism, Hebrew Tear

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 4, 2019January 4, 2019 Film, Literature

Click Here to Read: Yiddish Heroism, Hebrew Tears By Dara Horn on the Jewish Review of Books website on Winter 2019.

Amos Oz 1939-2018

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 29, 2018December 29, 2018 Literature, Politics

Click Here to Read: Review of Amos Oz’s “A Tale of Love and Darkness”
Reviewed by Merle Molofsky in the Other/Wise Journal Volume 1: Spring 2008.
Click Here to Read: Amos Oz, Israeli Author and Peace Advocate, Dies at 79 on the New York Times December 28, 2018.
Amos Oz. Photo: Shannon. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Announcement by Merle Molofsky about the death of Amos Oz.

Freud, Minna Bernays, and Schliemann’s Ilios

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 14, 2018December 14, 2018 Books, Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Freud, Minna Bernays, and Schliemann’s Ilios by Robert L. Lippman.

Click Here to Purchase: The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert L,. Lippman from IPBooks.net

Fifty Years of Life in America

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 13, 2018December 13, 2018 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Fifty Years of Life in America from The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project on the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research website on December 10, 2018.