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In his essay Civilisation & its Discontents 1929, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) had analysed the aggressive cruelty that changed men into savages. After Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, as much as he recognised these trends, Freud was reluctant to apply them to Vienna. Even when the...
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Shirtwaist designs, The Modern Priscilla Needlework Magazine, 19065 Minute HistoryRussians Max Blanck and Isaac Harris immigrated to the U.S in the early 1890s and, like hundreds of thousands of other impoverished Jewish immigrants, they began working in the garment industry in sweatshops....
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Portrait of a Young Woman, 1915WikiPastry Cook of Cagnes, 1922 The GuardianGrotesque self portrait, c1923Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.Thanks to George Prochnik for this review. From 1913, to get from Smilovichi, a shtetl in Belarus, to Paris. 20 year old artist Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) made many...
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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was born in Paris, son of banker Augustin De Gas. At 11 Degas enrolled in Lycée Louis-le-Grand, graduating in 1853. He was painting seriously and by 18, his bedroom became an artist's studio. He began making copies in the Louvre, but his father wanted him to study. So Degas...
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Ohev Shalom of Bucks County announces with exuberance its third annual Pride Shabbat on Friday June 14th at 6 PM at our Synagogue located at 944 Second Street Pike in Richboro, PA. Please join us as we welcome LGBTQ Educator and Activist Jamie Joy for an engaging and interactive discussion on...
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I want to give. In life, it's the relationships that we form with each other that matter. We need to develop close relationships with other people. They could be our spouses, children, friends, or co-workers. We are not meant to sit alone in boxes isolated from the rest of the world. We often bury...