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Author Sklarew, Myra

Title Over the rooftops of time : Jewish stories, essays, poems / Myra Sklarew
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
Contents Machine generated contents note: Learning the Language -- 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 -- Messenger -- Getting There -- Like a Field Riddled by Ants -- My Companion the Aleph-Bet -- World Is a Parchment Scrawled with Words -- Khamsin -- Night Watch -- Journal for John Holmes -- From Alexandria to American via Amtrak -- Interview with Joseph Brodsky February 28, 1979 -- Howard Poets in Perspective -- Counterpoint -- Life, the Unfinished Experiment -- Selfish Gene (or, Cortazar's Watch) -- 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 -- Puzzle People -- Genes, Blood, and Courage: A Boy Called Immortal Sword -- Root Causes: Stem Cells and the Tower of Babel -- Statue Within -- Place Called Gehinom -- Writing the Holocaust: auch ohne/Sprache -- Holocaust -- On Muranowska Street -- Then -- 1941 -- 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 -- Messiah Reconsidered
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Judaism -- Literary collections
Jews -- Literary collections
Judaism.
Jews.
Judaism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Jews
Judaism
Genre/Form Literary collections
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002017731
ISBN 1417520523
9781417520527
0791455750
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0791455769
9780791455760
0791487660
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