Course Info: HACU-0209
| Course | HACU-0209 Modernity, Diaspora, War |
| Long Title | 20th-C. European (Jewish) Literature: Writing and Diaspora |
| Term | 2024F |
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| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 4 on T,TH from 1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Jeffrey Wallen |
| Capacity | 20 |
| Available | 5 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | The 20th century was a period of great upheaval for Jews in all
parts of Europe, as they faced transformative pressures of
modernization, nationalism, revolution, war, and exile; the
literature written by Jews in western, eastern, and central
Europe is amazingly rich and diverse. The Jewishness of their
writings will not be the central theme, but will serve as the
thread to connect a stunning variety of imaginative texts written
in a plethora of languages (French, German, Yiddish, Polish,
Hungarian, Russian). We will read stories, poems, and short
novels that range from the surreal and hallucinatory to the
realistic depiction of everyday life. We will also see some films
made from these works. Writers will probably include Else
Lasker-Schuler, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anna
Seghers, Osip Mandelstam, Paul Celan, Vasily Grossman, Kadia
Molodowsky, Georges Perec, Elias Canetti, Irene Nemerovsky,
Joseph Roth, Imre Kertesz, Hannah Arendt, Jurek Becker, and Chava
Rosenfarb. Keywords:Literature, Jewish Studies |