Naomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto. She is the author of five books, most recently Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish (Stanford, 2024).
Naomi Seidman
By Naomi Seidman
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Yiddish World Elie Wiesel as an American phenomenon and a family man
The Holocaust writer implored Reagan to cancel a visit to a German military cemetery where SS soldiers were buried.
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Academics are finally recognizing the extraordinary influence of the Bais Yaakov schools
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