3:35-5:30P     M     WY111

A portion of the above section reserved for majors
Above section COAS intensive writing section and also
Requires registration in COAS W333

Since the late nineteenth century the Jewish community has been
radically transformed by the global ideologies of nationalism,
socialism, assimilation, and antisemitism.  Lacking adequate political
outlets, Jews have often been forced to respond to these modern
movements through the cultural sphere.  Jews learned to express
themselves, to respond to their surroundings, and even to transform
their environments through cultural pursuits.  This renaissance of
secular and religious culture among Jews has in turn played a seminal
role in the development of twentieth-century culture in general.  This
class will adopt a comparative approach to the study of Jewish culture
as seen through film, literature, theater, and music in America,
Palestine, Europe and the Soviet Union.  Among the personalities to be
discussed are Sholem Aleichem, Gustav Mahler, Isaac Babel, Franz
Kafka, Irving Berlin, S. Y. Agnon, and Louis B. Mayer.