| Description |
xiii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- A 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 -- A 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. |
| Provenance |
Gift of President and Mrs. Rozanski. |
| Subject |
Judaism -- Literary collections.
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Judaism. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
Jews -- Literary collections.
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Jews. |
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Judaism.
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Jews.
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| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Sklarew, Myra. Over the rooftops of time. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003 (OCoLC)606925871 |
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Online version: Sklarew, Myra. Over the rooftops of time. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003 (OCoLC)609254530 |
| ISBN |
0791455750 alkaline paper |
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9780791455753 alkaline paper |
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0791455769 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780791455760 paperback alkaline paper |
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