Click Here to Read: Introduction to: Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions By John Forrester on the Washington Post Books website.
150 years ago, the UK’s first and only Jewish leader changed politics forever
Click Here to Read: 150 years ago, the UK’s first and only Jewish leader changed politics forever: Staring down vicious anti-Semitic attacks, Benjamin Disraeli became Queen Victoria’s man of the people and built up the most successful party the country has ever seen
By Robert Phipot on the Times of Israel website on February 22, 2018.
Benjamin Disraeli. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Neanderthals Were Artists Too:
A new exhibition in New York tells the story of Jews in space
Emerging from the “House of Gaslight” in the Age of #METOO”
Click Here to Read: Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from the “House of Gaslight” in the Age of #METOO””: On the 20th anniversary of the Starr investigation, which introduced her to the world, the author rfeflects on the changing nature of trauma, the de-evolution of the media, and the extraordinary hope now provided by the #MeToo movement by Monica Lewinsky in Vanity Fair in the March 2018 Issue.
Photo by Mingle Media TV. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Screening and Discussion of Gods and Monsters with William Fried, PhD
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Brill Library Film Series
Screening and Discussion of Gods and Monsters with William Fried, PhD
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JOIN US for a Screening & Discussion of Gods and Monsters
Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 7:00 – 10:00 pm, The Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
The Friends of the Brill Library present a screening and post-film discussion of Gods and Monsters with Dr. William Fried.
One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1998 and winner of several awards including the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Gods and Monsters is a compassionate speculation about the final days of James Whale (1889-1957), the director of Frankenstein and 20 other films of the 1930s and ’40s, who was openly gay at a time when homosexuality in Hollywood was discreetly concealed. Adapted and Continue reading THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Screening and Discussion of Gods and Monsters with William Fried, PhD
