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

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Learning the Language
	The Landscape of Dislocation	3
	From the Backyard of the Diaspora	8
	Learning the Language	10
	Who Has Not Dreamed of Flying	18
	Yiddish Poetry	23
	Morocco: Gauze Curtains, Round Tombs, Hidden Jews	27
	What Hasanin M'Barak Said	33
	Like a Field Riddled by Ants
	In the Afterlife Which is a Library	37
	The Messenger	39
	Getting There	43
	Like a Field Riddled by Ants	48
	My Companion the Aleph-Bet	54
	The World Is a Parchment Scrawled with Words
	Khamsin	61
	Night Watch	65
	A Journal for John Holmes	69
	From Alexandria to American via Amtrak	76
	Interview with Joseph Brodsky February 28, 1979	79
	The Howard Poets in Perspective	89
	Counterpoint	93
	Life, the Unfinished Experiment
	The Selfish Gene (or, Cortazar's Watch)	101
	The Knockout Mouse on the Doorstep of Neurobiology (or, the Mind/Body Problem Revisited)	103
	AIDS: Latency and HIV Reservoirs: In the Dark Backward and Abysm of Time	106
	Human Gene Therapy: Harnessing the Body's Defenses Against Cancer	109
	The Puzzle People	114
	Genes, Blood, and Courage: A Boy Called Immortal Sword	117
	Root Causes: Stem Cells and the Tower of Babel	121
	The Statue Within	126
	A Place Called Gehinom
	Writing the Holocaust: auch ohne/Sprache	133
	Holocaust	149
	On Muranowska Street	150
	Then	152
	1941	154
	The Roots of Resistance: Le Chambon	156
	Instructions for the Messiah
	Crossing Over	161
	Instructions for the Messiah	163
	What is a Jewish Poem?	165
	Certainty	167
	Crossing into the New Millennium: American University Convocation, August 1998	170
	Grandfather: Lost and Found	176
	Ode to the Czar's Assassin	182
	The Messiah Reconsidered	187
	Notes	191
	Index	195