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131-285 Jewish Humour: From the Bible To Broadway | |
Note | Available as 131-385 at 3rd-year level. |
Availability | Not offered in 1998. |
Credit Points | 16.7 2nd and 3rd year |
Coordinator | Dr M Baker |
Contact | One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week |
Subject Description | A reading of Jewish culture by considering what has made Jews, at different points in their history, laugh. A study of humour and biblical and medieval Jewish narratives; Yiddish folklore; the migration of humour to the New World; the Jews and Hollywood; Woody Allen and contemporary American Jewry; the uses of laughter during the Holocaust. understand theories of humour from an interdisciplinary perspective; consider the way Jews have represented their identity over history through their relationship to particular cultural and textual traditions. |
Assessment | Written work done during the subject will consist of class papers and essays of up to 5000 words in total. |
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