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

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.

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

Literature & Fiction

Sklarew, Myra

United States

State Univ of New York Pr

State University of New York Press

Tells through poetry, eyewitness accounts, and a moving historical narrative the tangled web of Lithuanian Jewish history. This title reports on the events during the summer of 1941 when the Jews of Keidan, a Lithuanian shtetl [village], were systematically massacred by local towns people.

The Witness Trees: Lithuania

Poetry

Cornwall Books

Poetry. "I have been following Myra Sklarew's poetry for years, and am aware of its continual deepening into forms of daring and manifest freedom.. I recognize how she is quietly extraordinary. Fiction by Myra Sklarew is an event" -Cynthia Ozick.

Like a Field Riddled by Ants

Lost Roads Publishers

Altamira

Washington Writers' Pub. House

From the Backyard of the Diaspora.

Dryad Pr

Poetry. Jewish Studies. HARMLESS, Myra Sklarew's tenth collection of poetry, distills the experience of a life spent in the pursuit of truth. Trained as a biologist, Sklarew draws upon the discourses of science and the arts in equal measure. Also versed in history, Sklarew is haunted by the cruelties of the 20th century, particularly in Eastern Europe, even as she affirms the present moment and holds out the promise of renewal. This moving book has something important to say, and it says it in beautiful language marked by extraordinary musicality.

Harmless

Mayapple Press

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania. A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania. How do we behave under threat? How do we remember extreme danger? How do subsequent generations deal with their histories—whether as descendants of perpetrators or victims, of those who rescued others or were witnesses to genocide? Or those who were separated from their families in early childhood and do not know their origins? Myra Sklarew’s study draws on interviews with survivors, witnesses, rescuers, and collaborators, as well as descendants and family members, gathered over a twenty-five-year period in Lithuania. Returning to the land of her ancestors, Sklarew found a country still deeply affected by the Nazi Holocaust and decades of Soviet domination. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to readers interested in neuroscience and neuropsychology, Holocaust studies, Jewish history, and personal memoir.

A Survivor Named Trauma: Holocaust Memory in Lithuania

History

Europe

the poem, Lithuania," is based upon the firsthand accounts of elderly Lithuanians and surviving Lithuanian Jews, on letters written from Lithuania to my family on the eve of World War II, on diaries secretly kept, on conversations with a family member who survived the Kovno Ghetto and Stutthof concentration camp, and on evidence still visible."

Lithuania: New & Selected Poems

Azul Editions

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