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 109-012 Modern Jewish Literature A: Exile and Homecoming

Note

Formerly available as 150-251/351. Students who have completed 150-251/351 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

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

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

Weekly seminars equivalent to 3.5 hours

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

Written work totalling 2000 words, and a 2-hour seen examination.

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