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150-453 The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses To Catastrophe

Availability: Not offered in 1996; expected to be offered in 1997.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Dr Z Shavitsky.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Combined Honours course in Jewish Studies.

Contact: Two hours a week.

Objectives:

Students on completion of the subject should have acquired a deeper and more extensive understanding of the character of Jewish literature through the ages and have developed critical skills in its analysis and interpretation.

Content:

Advanced study of Jewish literary texts, classical, medieval and modern, with special concern for the theme of destruction and literary representations of and responses to catastrophe. Attention is also given to major topics in the critical tradition of reading Jewish texts. Contemporary holocaust literature forms a substantial component of the subject: eg. Primo Levy, Else Wiesel, David Grossman.

Assessment:

6,000 words of written work and class-papers.

Prescribed texts:

• Appelfeld A Bertha in Penueli and Uchmani, eds. Hebrew Short Stories, Tel-Aviv: Megiddo, 1965
• Oz A Touch the Water Touch the Wind New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1973
• Oz A Crusade in Unto Death New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975
• Roskies D Against the Apocalypse Cambridge, Mass 1984, Facing the Holocaust Selected Israeli Fiction Ramras-Rauch G & Michman-Melkman J eds, The Jewish Publication Society Philadelphia 1985, Mint A Hurban Columbia University Press N. Y.1984

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150-453 The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses To Catastrophe

Availability: Not offered in 1996; expected to be offered in 1997.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Dr Z Shavitsky.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Combined Honours course in Jewish Studies

Contact: Two hours a week.

Objectives:

Students on completion of the subject should have acquired a deeper and more extensive understanding of the character of Jewish literature through the ages and have developed critical skills in its analysis and interpretation.

Content:

Advanced study of Jewish literary texts, classical, medieval and modern, with special concern for the theme of destruction and literary representations of and responses to catastrophe. Attention is also given to major topics in the critical tradition of reading Jewish texts. Contemporary holocaust literature forms a substancial component of the subject: eg. Primo Levy, Else Wiesel, David Grossman.

Assessment:

6,000 words of written work and class-papers.

Prescribed texts:

• Appelfeld A Bertha in Penuali and Uchmani, eds. Hebrew Short Stories, Tel-Aviv: Megiddo, 1965
• Oz A Touch the Water Touch the Wind New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1973
• Oz A Crusade in Unto Death New York:Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975
• Roskies D Against the Apocalypse Cambridge, Mass 1984, Facing the Holocaust Selected Israeli Fiction Ramras-Rauch G & Michman-Melkman J eds, The Jewish Publication Society Philadelphia 1985
• Mintz A Hurban Columbia University Press New York 1984

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