I have a fantasy, which is not insanely far outside the realm of reality, so maybe I should call it a very ambitious goal: When Freud's Butcher the book is finished and published, I would like to have my book party in Siegmund Kornmehl's former butcher shop. That's not the very ambitious part. The shop has been part of Vienna's Sigmund Freud Museum since 2001, when it was
Tenement Museum
My (More Than Usually) Jewish New York Visit
Thanks to the general awareness of my Jewish heritage that blogging here has brought me -- along with specific research for Freud's Butcher the book -- a good part of my visit to New York City this past week has been spent getting in touch with my roots: Seeing old friends, eating at old favorite restaurants, and... Doing Jewish Stuff I went to the Roman Vishniac