15419

JS 315 The Culture of Yiddish

Cecile Kuznitz

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1:30pm-3:50pm

HEG 201

HIST

Cross-listed: History For nearly one thousand years Yiddish was the primary language of European Jewry and its emigrant communities. This class will explore the role of Yiddish in Jewish life and the rich culture produced in the language. Topics will include the sociolinguistic basis of Jewish vernacular languages; medieval popular literature for a primarily female audience; the role of Yiddish in the spread of Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment); attempts to formulate a secular Jewish identity around the Yiddish language; the flourishing of modern Yiddish press, literature, and theater and their intersection with European modernism; contemporary Hasidic (ultra-Orthodox) culture; and the ongoing debate over the alleged death of Yiddish. All readings will be in English translation. Familiarity with the Hebrew alphabet and/or Jewish history helpful but not required. Class size: 15

15442

HEB 102 Elementary Hebrew II

David Nelson

M T W Th .

1:30pm-2:30pm

OLIN 302

FLLC

15420

HIST 181 Jews in the Modern World

Cecile Kuznitz

. T . Th .

3:10pm-4:30pm

HEG 201

HIST/DIFF

15418

HIST 2701 The Holocaust, 1933-1945

Cecile Kuznitz

. T . Th .

11:50am-1:10pm

OLIN 301

HIST/DIFF

15439

REL 104 Introduction to Judaism

Alan Avery-Peck

M . . . .

1:30pm-3:50pm

OLIN 310

HUM/DIFF

15446

REL 257 Gender & Sexuality IN Judaism

David Nelson

. T . Th .

11:50am-1:10pm

RKC 111

HUM/DIFF