Jewish Literature: Biblical to Modern

5 credits

A study of Jewish literature from Biblical narrative and rabbinic commentary to modern prose and poetry with intervening texts primarily organized around major themes: martyrdom and suffering, destruction and exile, messianism, Hasidism and Enlightenment, Yiddishism and Zionism. Various critical approaches; geographic and historic contexts. Course overlaps with: MELC 310. Offered: jointly with JEW ST 312.