Great Jewish Writers

Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CASWR 100 or 120). - A panorama of great stories by Jewish authors, including Ecclesiastes, Sholem Aleichem, Peretz, Kafka, Agnon, Wiesel, Yezierska, Serdatzky, and Paley. Topics include narrative techniques and figurative language, shtetl life in E. Europe, modernization, love, humor,the Nazi genocide, post-war trauma.