A Curable Romantic Author:Joseph Skibell Set mostly in early 20'th century Vienna, the novel chronicles the life and times and loves of Dr. Jakov Sammelsohn-from his early expulsion from his Hasidic family (for his crime of reading secular books) when he was twelve, into a friendship with Sigmund Freud (circa 1894), into the early Esperanto movement (1895-1907), and finally through WWI... more » and into the Warsaw ghetto.« less