Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0260 - 20th-C. European Jewish Literature: Writing Across Borders and Languages

At the heart of the twentieth century lies the destruction of European Jewry, but both before and after the Holocaust there is an amazingly rich and varied literature written by Jews in western, eastern, and central Europe (and many of these writers moved around frequently). The Jewishness of their writings will not be the central theme, but will rather serve as the thread to connect in one course a very diverse range of writers, such as Else Lasker-Schuler, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anna Seghers, Osip Mandelstam, Paul Celan, Vasily Grossman, Georges Perec, Elias Canetti, Irene Nemerovsky, Joseph Roth, Imre Kertesz, Hannah Arendt, Jurek Becker, and others. (keywords: literature, Jewish studies)

Time and Narrative This course includes both in-person and remote elements, but can accommodate fully remote students. Students in this course can expect to spend 6 to 9 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.