| source Johns Hopkins University (X) |
level Upper Level Undergraduate (5) Lower Level Undergraduate (3) Graduate (1) |
department Jewish Studies (X) |
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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This is a multimedia lecture course which will use a combination of text, picture, and music to reveal the astonishing diversity of Jewish life and its relationship with the non-Jewish world at the very beginning of the modern age. We will look at the new patterns of Jewish life which developed in the Atlantic world, the Ukrainian steppe, and the Middle East from 1500-1800. The cultural revolutions of the period which led to the development of the Jewish book, the codification of Halakhah, and the spread of Kabbalah mysticism will be examined. Finally, we will see how the gradual development of the modern state and the blurring of boundaries between different social groups, between men and women, and between Jews and non-Jews forced the Jews of the early modern world to find new definitions of what it actually meant to be Jewish. Cross listed with Jewish Studies
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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 womenâs 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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Prerequisites: 210.163 or Permission of the instructor Year-long course. Includes the four language skills--reading, writing, listening, and speaking--and introduces students to Yiddish culture through text, song, and film. Emphasis is placed both on the acquisition of Yiddish as a tool for the study of Yiddish literature and Ashkenazic history and culture, and on the active use of the language in oral and written communication. Both semesters must be taken with a passing grade to receive credit.
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Continuation to Intermediate Yiddish I. This course will focus on understanding the Yiddish language as a key to understanding the culture of Yiddish-speaking Jews. Emphasis will be placed on reading literary texts and historical documents. These primary sources will be used as a springboard for work on the other language skills: writing, listening, and speaking. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies
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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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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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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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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 GRLL and Jewish Studies
Score: 10.93609 Details | Listing | Web page