The true story of Max Eitingon is still being written.  A member of Sigmund Freud’s inner circle and financial supporter of the psychoanalytic movement, he founded the Palestine Psychoanalytic Society in 1933, thereby birthing Freudian psychoanalysis in the state of Israel.  He has long been suspected of being a Soviet agent.  In a 1988 essay … Continue reading Max and Mirra, Edo and Enam

I have fond if vague memories of the 1952 film “Ivanhoe,” with Elizabeth Taylor in the role of Rebecca, and which seemed to play frequently at a nearby revival film house when I was a kid in Philadelphia.  Until a couple of weeks ago, though, I had never read Sir Walter Scott’s famous novel.  To be … Continue reading Ivanhoe and Jewish Politics