03880nam 2200649Ia 450 991081050450332120240417035555.00-7914-8766-01-4175-2052-3(CKB)1000000000446775(OCoLC)61367656(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587129(SSID)ssj0000217092(PQKBManifestationID)11185767(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000217092(PQKBWorkID)10202342(PQKB)10493001(MiAaPQ)EBC3407931(OCoLC)55939296(MdBmJHUP)muse5940(Au-PeEL)EBL3407931(CaPaEBR)ebr10587129(EXLCZ)99100000000044677520020118d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrOver the rooftops of time[electronic resource] Jewish stories, essays, poems /Myra Sklarew1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20031 online resource (213 p.) SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-5575-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194) and index.Intro -- Over the Rooftops of Time -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Learning the Language -- The Landscape of Dislocation -- From the Backyard of the Diaspora -- Learning the Language -- 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 -- Like a Field Riddled by Ants -- 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 -- Instructions for the Messiah -- 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.Wide-ranging and poignant reflections on literature, art, science, and memory.JewsLiterary collectionsJewsJudaismLiterary collectionsJudaismJewsJews.JudaismJudaism.818/.5409Sklarew Myra1706926MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810504503321Over the rooftops of time4094734UNINA