Why Did So Many Doctors Become Nazis?

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 14, 2020December 14, 2020 History, Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Why Did So Many Doctors Become Nazis? In the answer, and its consequences, a bioethicist finds moral lessons for today’s professional healer By Ashley K. Fernandes on the Tablet website on December 10, 2020.
Josef Mengele, Auschwitz. Album Höcker. Image: Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Lost Yiddish Words

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 11, 2020December 11, 2020 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Lost Yiddish Words: The language contemporary Hasidim use in everyday life borrows from English and simplifies a richer linguistic ancestor—and yet is more alive by Rose Waldman on the Tablet website on December 11, 2020.
A page from Yiddish-Latin-Hebrew-German dictionary. Image: Elijah Levita. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Freud in the Dates?

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 9, 2020December 9, 2020 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Is Freud in the Dates? by Robert Lippman from Midstream, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2020.
Click Here to Purchase: The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert L. Lippman.

What I Left. And Whom

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Uncategorized

Click Here to Read: What I Left. And Whom by Nathan Szajnberg on Meduim.com written April 6, 2006 posted December 4, 2020.

A foodie in his element

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Arts, Books

Click Here to Read: A foodie in his element: The author is evenhanded and accurate about the nouvelle cuisine movement, says Paul Levy in the Critic UK December 2020 Issue.

The Hubble telescope has revealed a ‘very dramatic and very weird’ fading nebula in deep space

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: The Hubble telescope has revealed a ‘very dramatic and very weird’ fading nebula in deep space
by Susie Neilson on the Business Insider website on December 7, 2020.
Stingray Nebula. Image: NASA, Matt Bobrowsky (Orbital Sciences Corporation). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Freud Survives

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Why Freud Survives: He’s been debunked again and again—and yet we still can’t give him up.
By Louis Menand in the New Yorker on August 21 2017.