Memorial Union, Old Madison Room
800 Langdon St (Madison, WI)
Also available on Zoom:
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/mhu3k6mBT0WCMDomo4JDEw#/registration
The Austrian journalist Karl Kraus reportedly quipped, “Psychoanalysis is the disease of assimilated Jews; Eastern European Jews make do with diabetes.” And yet, Eastern European Jews were fascinated by Freud and psychoanalysis, flocking to lectures on the subject and following Freud’s life and career with curiosity and enthusiasm. This lecture will trace “the Freud craze” in the burgeoning Yiddish press of the interwar period, when readers eagerly sought information about “the most famous Jew in the world.”
More information: https://cjs.wisc.edu/event/cytron26/
Sponsored by: Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, George L. Mosse Program in History, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic+, Department of English