JLL 403 Modern Jewish Literature
Over the past 150 years, Jews have developed an impressive and varied literary tradition in English, Yiddish and Hebrew, grappling with such diverse issues as the immigrant experience, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, assimilation and/or acculturation, theology and spirituality, Zionism and Diasporas, Gender and Judaism, and Jewish family life. This course will examine this rich literary tradition and grapple with the question of what makes this literature Jewish and modern. A special section will be devoted to literary representations of the modern rabbi and synagogue.