Jewish Studies 260 - COLQ: YIDDISH LIT AND CULTURE

Fall
2019
01
4.00
Justin Cammy
MW 01:20-02:35
Smith College
10747-F19
SEELYE 202
jcammy@smith.edu
From dybbuks and schlemiels to radicals and revolutionaries, Yiddish literature and culture are more than Fiddler on the Roof. Explores Yiddish stories, novels, poetry, and drama as a site for political activism, ethnic performance, and creative expression in tsarist and revolutionary Russia, interwar Poland, and immigrant America. Why did Yiddish so often find itself at the bloody crossroads of art and politics? How have post-Holocaust engagements with Yiddish memorialized not only a lost civilization but also re-imagined a homeland in language? All texts in translation. No prerequisites.
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