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 109-019 The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe

Note

Formerly available as 150-453. Students who have completed 150-453 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

4th year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Dr Z Shavitsky

Prerequisites

Admission to fourth year combined Honours in Jewish Studies.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

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: e.g. Primo Levy, Elie Wiesel, David Grossman.

Assessment

Written work totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • A Appelfeld (ed), Bertha in Penueli and Uchmani. Megiddo 1965.
  • A Oz, Touch the Water Touch the Wind. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973.
  • A Oz, Crusade and Unto Death. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1975.
  • D Roskies, Against the Apocalypse. Cambridge 1984.
  • G Ramras-Rauch, Facing the Holocaust.
  • G Ramras-Rauch & J Michman-Melkman (eds), The Jewish Publication Society. Philadelphia 1985.
  • A Mintz, Hurban. Columbia University Press 1984.
  • A Appelfeld, Badenheim. 1939.
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