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...Image begins with a snapshot in time, a single event that propels the narrative both forward and backward: the death of Naomi Landsmann, Leora’s best and only friend. This event causes Leora to meet Naomi’s grandfather, Bill, whose passion for Biblical photographs causes him to view life in discrete moments, snapshots that never form a cohesive whole. Though Bill’s goal is to create “the Bible on film, its greatest moments recorded in stop-action photography,” these tiny squares cannot create a world of meaning...
...Like his Landsmann, Freud (whom he never met), Dr. Redlich began his professional career as a neurologist, then switched to the social and analytic sides of psychiatry. He says that his approach is "basically Freudian," but of his Yale department he insists: "We are undogmatic, uncommitted to any particular point of view or school of thought. We are at the threshold of a broad new psychiatry that will use the knowledge of many disciplines...
...Jacob Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and other leaders of _New York's Jewish community-the Alliance filled a great gap in the lives of immigrants. There a man could come to learn English, use the library or the gymnasium, attend religious services or smoke a pipe with a Landsmann over a game of checkers. There mothers, still wearing sheitels, could learn the language that their children were picking up quickly in public school. And the kids themselves could come after school to work at their hobbies in Alliance playrooms, attend dances and do their homework...
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