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Johns Hopkins University - A Critical Introduction to Israeli Documentary Cinema

This course explores the unique filmic approaches, styles, genres, and storytelling techniques that have been employed by filmmakers in Israeli documentary cinema to manifest its own grand and petite narratives. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies
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Johns Hopkins University - The History of Modern Jewish Family

This is an undergraduate seminar which will use class discussions of both primary sources (in English translation) and modern historical research in order to reach new understandings about the development of the Jewish family, and particularly the roles of women within it, in Europe and the United States in the modern period (1650-1940). The topics we will discuss include: the role of Jewish law in determining Jewish family life, women and the politics of the family economy, sex and the erotic in the history of the modern Jewish family, Jewish women’s spirituality, Hasidism, Haskalah and the Jewish family in eastern Europe, the bourgeois revolution of German Jewry, and the crisis of Jewish family life in early twentieth century USA and Poland. Cross listed with Jewish Studies
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Johns Hopkins University - Trauma in Theory, Film and Fiction

A discussion of trauma in theory, fiction, and film. Works by W. B. Sebald, Claude Lanzmann, Gunter Grass, Toni Morrison, Art Spiegelman, and others. Cross-listed with Anthropology, English, History, Jewish Studies, and Philosophy
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Johns Hopkins University - The Other in Israeli Culture

This course examines the representations of the Other in Israeli society and culture. Relying on Self-Other theories we will study the role of the Other in contemporary Israeli cinema, prose, poetry, theater and visual art, and will investigate the political, social and cultural context of its representations. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies and Film and Media Studies
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Johns Hopkins University - Realism and Anti Realism in Modern Jewish Literature

This course seeks to trace the narrative dynamics and literary means of Modern Jewish Literature. The course will focus on the ideological, political and artistic context of the break with the conventions of realism in Jewish modernism. Reading includes: Erich Auerbach, Franz Kafka, S.Y Agnon, S.Y Abramovitch, Sholem Asch, A.B Yehoshua, Yoel Hoffmann and Orly Castel-Bloom. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies and GRLL
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