Discussions stress historical development and authors treatments of tradition and modernity.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote in Yiddish, and S.Y. Agnon, who wrote in Hebrew. Their imaginative worlds and similarities to Franz Kafka's tales as they describe the comic incongruities and tragic absurdities of modern existence. May be repeated for credit. Admission by permission of instructor and department. One hundred years of Jewish American writing in fiction, autobiography, poetry, drama, and non- fictional prose.