Over the rooftops of time [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish stories, essays, poems / / Myra Sklarew

• Autore: Sklarew Myra
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Disciplina: 818/.5409
• Soggetto topico: Jews; Judaism
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Wide-ranging and poignant reflections on literature, art, science, and memory.
• Titolo autorizzato: Over the rooftops of time
• ISBN: 0-7914-8766-0; 1-4175-2052-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810504503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II