150-454 Jerusalem As A Metaphor in Jewish Literature

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Admission to the Combined Honours course in Jewish Studies.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Advanced study of Jewish literary texts, classical, medieval and modern, with special concern for the theme of Jerusalem, and literary representations in poetry and in prose of the Heavenly and the Earthly Jerusalem. Attention is also given to major topics in the critical tradition of reading Jewish texts. Contemporary authors and poets include: A Oz, A B Yehoshua, Y Amichai.

Assessment

6000 words of written work and class-papers.

Prescribed Texts

• Alter R, Modern Hebrew Literature. Behrman House NY.
• Amichaei Y ed. & trans. Chana Block & Stephen Mitchell, The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. NY Harper & Row.
• Blocker J, Israeli Stories. Schocken Books.
• Oz A, My Michael. Chatto & Windus.
• Yehoshua A B, The Continuing Silence of a Poet. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.