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 109-020 Jerusalem in Jewish Literature

Note

Formerly available as 150-454. Students who have completed 150-454 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

Not Offered (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 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

Written work totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • R Alter, Modern Hebrew Literature. Behrman House.
  • Y Amichai, C Block & S Mitchell (eds), The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Harper & Row.
  • J Blocker, Israeli Stories. Schocken Books.
  • A Oz, My Michael. Chatto & Windus.
  • A B Yehoshua, The Continuing Silence of a Poet. Weidenfield and Nicolson.
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