Works in different languages reflects different cultural traditions and perspectives. Writers include George Eliot, Haim Nahman Bialik, Yosef Haim Brenner, Sholem Aleichman, S.Y. Agnon, Haim Hazaz, Arthur Koestler, Herman Wouk, A.B. Yehoshua, A.M. Klein. Hours to be arranged. Jewish autobiographical texts from the Renaissance period to the present in the light of contemporary critical and theoretical perspectives and within a comparative context. Authors to be studied include Y.A. Modena, Nahman of Bratslav, Solomon Maimon, N.H. Bialik, Y.L. Peretz, and David Daiches.
All readings are in English.
Hours to be arranged . An exploration of the transformations in Judaism of the meanings of Diaspora, historically and aesthetically, from scripture to commentary to modern fiction. Selections from the Bible, Commentaries, Hassidic Tales, Sholem Aleikhem, Peretz, Kafka, Babel, and others. Hours to be arranged. All readings in English translation.