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 150-251 Modern Jewish Literature A: Exile and Homecoming

Note

Available as 150-351 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Dr Z Shavitsky

Prerequisites

Any two Arts subjects or permission of the Head of the Department. This subject does not presuppose knowledge of Hebrew.

Semester

1

Contact

Two-hour seminar a week or equivalent

Subject Description

A review of Jewish literature in English translation from the Enlightenment to the present, featuring a variety of authors, genres and texts. The principal theme of the subject is the exploration of literary perspectives on major social and political issues of Jewish civilisation, such as diaspora and return, exile and homeland, uprooting and alienation, and literary responses to the holocaust.

Assessment

3000 words of written work (50%) and a 2-hour seen examination (50%).

Prescribed Texts
  • Agnon S Y, Twenty-One Stories. Schocken.
  • Blocker J, Israeli Stories. Schocken.
  • Yehoshua A B, The Continuing Silence of a Poet. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
  • Litvinoff, The Penguin Book of Jewish Short Stories. Penguin.
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