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  title info:
    title: Stargazing in the atomic age
    sub title: essays
  title info:
    title: Essays. Selections
  name:
    name part: Goldman, Anne E.
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: essay
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 142 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: During World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish scientists and artists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some of the most difficult questions posed by our age. Many had just fled Europe. Others were born in the United States to immigrants who had escaped Russia's pogroms. Alternately celebrated as mavericks and dismissed as eccentrics, they trespassed the boundaries of their own disciplines as the entrance to nations slammed shut behind them. In Stargazing in the Atomic Age, Anne Goldman interweaves personal and intellectual history in exuberant essays that cast new light on these figures and their virtuosic thinking. In lyric, lucent sentences that dance between biography and memoir as they connect innovation in science with achievement in the arts, Goldman yokes the central dramas of the modern age with the brilliant thinking of earlier eras. Here, Einstein plays Mozart to align mathematical principle with the music of the spheres and Rothko paints canvases whose tonalities echo the stark prose of Genesis. Nearby, Bellow evokes the dirt and dazzle of the Chicago streets, while upon the heels of World War II, Chagall illuminates stained glass no less buoyant than the effervescent notes of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. In these essays, Goldman reminds readers that Jewish history offers as many illustrations of accomplishment as of affliction. At the same time, she gestures toward the ways in which experiments in science and art that defy partisanship can offer us inspiration during a newly divisive era.
  note: by Anne Goldman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-142).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: E184.355 .G65 2021
  classification: 973/.04924
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Georgia review books
  identifier: 9780820358444
  identifier: 0820358444
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210218
    record change date: 20210728155249.0
    record identifier: in00004403124