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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Hebrew Literature
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dror Burstein
Coordinator Office Hours:
Weds., by appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Dror Burstein
Course/Module description:
The literature changes but rain always falls in it. The rain connects heaven and earth and carries with it the promise of growth and life but also the possibility of disaster (flood or drought). Rains are a distinct public interest but sometimes also perform solitude and introspection. They have a special eroticism of fertilization, they are also similar to the poetic speech itself. The course reads in a selection of rains of Hebrew literature: the story of creation, the story of Elijah's stopping the rain, the many rain stories of the two Taanit tractats in the Talmuds, poems by Ibn Gabirol and Moshe Ibn Ezra, and the poetry of Yaakov Steinberg, Leah Goldberg, Zelda, Avot Yeshurun, Yair Hurwitz, Zali Gurevitch and Israel Eliraz.
Course/Module aims:
To listen to the rain - to the season - to nature - through literature and poetry.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To examine a reflection of a significant natural element in Hebrew literature for many generations, that is, to examine literary perspectives in Hebrew imagination over thousands of years regarding a phenomenon that has not changed over that time; to take a fresh look at a miraculous and yet "boring" phenomenon like winter rains.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture
Course/Module Content:
What is rain?
The Rain Lexicon
Biblical Rain (Without the Flood)
The Sage's Rain:
Selection of sources
The Rain of Sages: The Story of the Honi in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud
The rain in Tractate Ta'anit: more stories
Rains of of Spain
Bialik
Tchernichovsky
Jacob Steinberg
Lea Goldberg
Natan Alterman
Yair Hurwitz
Avot Yeshurun
Israel Eliraz
Zelda
Required Reading:
A reader will be prepared.
Additional Reading Material:
• Barnett, Cynthia, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, Crown 2015.
• Harrison, Melissa, Rain: Four Walks in English Weather, Faber & Faber 2016.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 90 %
Home Exam
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