Stargazing in the atomic age : (Record no. 1296)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780820358444 (pbk.)
International Standard Book Number 0820358444 (pbk.)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1237796715
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Original cataloging agency TULIB
Language of cataloging eng
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Classification number E184.355
Item number .G65 2021
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Goldman, Anne,
Dates associated with a name 1960-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Stargazing in the atomic age :
Remainder of title essays /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Anne Goldman.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Athens :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The University of Georgia Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2021.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 142 p.
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Georgia review books
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Jews
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Jews
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
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