Over the rooftops of time : Jewish stories, essays, poems / Myra Sklarew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sklarew, Myra.

Series:

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Literary collections.

Jews.

Judaism--Literary collections.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wide-ranging and poignant reflections on literature, art, science, and memory.

Contents:

Intro

Over the Rooftops of Time

Contents

Acknowledgments

Learning the Language

The Landscape of Dislocation

From the Backyard of the Diaspora

Who Has Not Dreamed of Flying?

Yiddish Poetry

Morocco: Gauze Curtains, Round Tombs, Hidden Jews

What Hasanin M'Barak Said

Like a Field Riddled by Ants

In the Afterlife Which Is a Library

The Messenger

Getting There

My Companion the Aleph-Bet

The World Is a Parchment Scrawled with Words

Khamsin

Night Watch

A Journal for John Holmes

From Alexandria to American Via Amtrak

Interview with Joseph Brodsky: February 28, 1979

The Howard Poets in Perspective

Counterpoint

Life, The Unfinished Experiment

The Selfish Gene (or, Cortazar's Watch )

The Knockout Mouse on the Doorstep of Neurobiology (or, the Mind/Body Problem Revisited)

AIDS: Latency and HIV Reservoirs In the Dark Backward and Abysm of Time

Human Gene Therapy: Harnessing the Body's Defenses Against Cancer

The Puzzle People

Genes, Blood, and Courage: A Boy Called Immortal Sword

Root Causes Stem Cells and the Tower of Babel

The Statue Within

A Place Called Gehinom

Writing the Holocaust: auch ohne/Sprache

Holocaust

On Muranowska Street

Then

1941

The Roots of Resistance: Le Chambon

Instructions for the Messiah

Crossing Over

What is a Jewish Poem?

Certainty

Crossing into the New Millennium: American University Convocation, August 1998

Grandfather: Lost and Found

Ode to the Czar's Assassin

The Messiah Reconsidered

Notes

LEARNING THE LANGUAGE

THE WORLD IS A PARCHMENT SCRAWLED WITH WORDS

LIFE, THE UNFINISHED EXPERIMENT

A PLACE CALLED GEHINOM

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MESSIAH

Index of Names

A

B

C

D

E

F

G.

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194) and index.

ISBN:

9780791487662

0791487660

9781417520527

1417520523

OCLC:

61367656