Jewish Studies 350DP - Jews/Difference in Amer. Lit.

This course considers how American literature has depicted Jews partnering with non-Jews. Jewish culture has engaged this question across centuries, languages, literary genres, and national borders, but in this class we'll focus on American Jewish experiences, and their intersections with other cultural traditions. We'll also embark from the premise that the most popular canonical portrayals of American Jewish exogamy (out-group partnering) couple white Jewish men with non-Jewish white women - juxtapositions that offer a more limited range of American Jewish experiences than stories that more fully explore the diversity of Jews and non-Jews in the United States.

Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors