Jewish Studies 362 - Seminar in Jewish Studies: The Last Great Yiddish Poet

Topics course: “What Will Remain?,” asks Sutzkever, the most influential Yiddish poet of the 20th century. How does writing provide spiritual nourishment in times of crisis? Significant attention to the dynamic world of Yiddish culture in interwar Poland, to Sutzkever as poet of the Vilna ghetto and resistance fighter, and to post-Holocaust poetry simultaneously performing the work of memory and creative rebirth. No background in Yiddish expected; all materials available in translation. Open to juniors and seniors, and by petition to the instructor.

Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores