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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Yiddish
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Irit Eilam Abadi
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Irit Eilam Abadi
Course/Module description:
The course will examine the representations of "shtetls" and big cities in Yiddish and Hebrew literature, from the 1880s until the 1930s. We will read works by Mendele Mokher Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, Dvora Baron, Yisroel Rabon, Aharon Glantz Leyeles, Sholem Asch and others.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Students will be able to understand Jewish literature that was written about shtetls and cities as part of a literary tradition and as part of a historical process of modernization; to understand the ways in which Jewish writers percieved different spaces; the students will become familiar with theories of urbanism and with many Yiddish and Hebrew literary works.
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
the students will recieve a detailed syllabus at the beginning of the semester.
Required Reading:
Details will be given at the beginning of the semester. These are some of the texts we will read:
Miron, Dan. "The Literary Image of the Shtetl", The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination, Syracuse UP, New York, 2000, pp. 1-48.
Pike, Burton. The Image of the City in Modern Literature, Princeton UP, Princeton, 1981.
Steve J. Zipperstein, "Russian Maskilim and the City", in: David Berger (ed.), The Legacy of Jewish Migration: 1881 and Its Impact, New York: Atlantic Research and Publications, 1983, pp. 31-45.
Additional Reading Material:
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 75 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 10 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 15 %
Additional information:
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