Jewish Studies 260 - COLQ: YIDDISH LIT AND CULTURE

Spring
2016
01
4.00
Justin Cammy
MW 02:40-04:00
Smith College
41497-S16
SEELYE 202
jcammy@smith.edu
Why did Yiddish, the language of Eastern European Jews and millions of immigrants to America, so often find itself at the bloody crossroads of art and politics? Explores the Yiddish novel as a forum for political engagement and creative expression in the differing contexts of tsarist and revolutionary Russia, interwar Poland, Weimar Berlin and immigrant America. How have post-Holocaust writers memorialized not only a lost civilization but also a murdered language? All texts in translation. Enrollment limited to 18. No prerequisites
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.