Over the Rooftops of Time: Jewish Stories, Essays, Poems (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) (Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

Over the Rooftops of Time: Jewish Stories, Essays, Poems (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) (Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) image
ISBN-10:

0791455769

ISBN-13:

9780791455760

Author(s): Sklarew, Myra
Released: Nov 07, 2002
Format: Paperback, 212 pages
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Description:

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

In this collection of essays, stories, and poems, award-winning poet and fiction writer Myra Sklarew traces a journey across the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Her point of view is Jewish, though her subjects include science, exile, the future, the Holocaust, the remaining Jewish community of Morocco, Yiddish poetry, the visual arts, and teaching. Many of these pieces deal with personal subjects―the search for a grandfather’s birthplace, the death of a mother, the profound effect of a teacher, the struggle of a woman to embrace Judaism. Whether writing about medicine, Messiah, or the first speech of an infant, Sklarew’s work finds its roots in Judaism, a Judaism fashioned in large part by the author’s own hands. Ultimately, the book is about access, about following one’s own curiosity despite the obstacles that might appear along the way. And it is about a kind of belief: that nothing will be wasted, that all that we can learn will have a place in our lives eventually, though we may not know its purpose at the time.

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