POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2020

By Tamar SchwartzApril 6, 2020April 13, 2020 Literature

Jay Rubin

Is it safe to say “Happy Poetry Month” at a time like this – when so many people are frightened, huddled in their homes – if they have homes? Yet poetry has a way of keeping us in touch with existential reality, music for the soul and mind – so yes, I’m indeed saying it. Happy Poetry Month!!!

As always in April, I’m asking you to support poets and poetry by buying their books; this time, when physical bookstores are closed, you can call them and have them mail the books to you or you can order them yourself, online. Please do. I don’t need to remind readers of this column that a book of poems can reward you again and again.

The poet we have for you today, Jay Rubin, has had and continues to have a very interesting life. Well-traveled, as you will see from his poems, he is also, like so many of our poets, multi-talented. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2020

Golden Books

By Tamar SchwartzApril 5, 2020April 5, 2020 Books, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Golden Books, Review of Golden Books in the Aftermath of the Holocaust by Dan Rabinowitz Reviewed By Allan Nadler on the Jewish Review of Books website in Spring 2020.

What Endures of the Romance of American Communism

By Tamar SchwartzApril 5, 2020April 5, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: What Endures of the Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick in the New York Review of Books Daily on April 3, 2020. Communist Party USA at the Democracy Awakening rally at U.S. Capitol Image: Becker 1999 from Grove City, OH. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

4.6 Earthquake Rocks Red Sea Where Jews Crossed Just Before Passover

By Tamar SchwartzApril 5, 2020April 5, 2020 History

Click Here to Read: 4.6 Earthquake Rocks Red Sea Where Jews Crossed Just Before Passover By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz on the Israel News Website on April 5, 2020.
The Crossing of the Red Sea by Nicolas Poussin. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

‘The Betrothed,’ a Novel of the Plague in Milan

By Tamar SchwartzApril 5, 2020April 5, 2020 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: ‘The Betrothed,’ a Novel of the Plague in Milan: How Primo Levi and Alessandro Manzoni each reckoned with catastrophe by Fedric Branfon on the Tablet Website on April 3, 2020.

What Freud Got Right

By Tamar SchwartzApril 5, 2020April 5, 2020 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: What Freud Got Right: We might do a better job of living together if we believed that we are meant to do so by Wilfred M. McClay in the Hedge Hog Review.

Epidemiological and clinical features of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in China

By Tamar SchwartzApril 4, 2020April 4, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: Epidemiological and clinical features of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in China by Yang Yang, Qingbin Lu, Mingjin Liu, Yixing Wang, Anran Zhang, Neda Jalali, Natalie Dean, Ira Longini, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Bo Xu, Xiaoai Zhang, Liping Wang, Wei Liu, Liqun Fang on the MedRxIV website on February 21, 2020.
Image: Chinanews.com / China News Service. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.