01/05/2010 - 8:00am to 01/05/2010 - 10:00am

Location:
Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at PSU
Check the university website (http://www.sa.pdx.edu/soc/) for locations two weeks prior to the beginning of the term.

Class Description:
ENG 308, Taught by Michael Weingrad.

How have the religious concepts of redemption, apocalypse, and messianism been transformed in modern Jewish literature? How are these concepts used to convey the experience of secular modernity, of Zionist state-building, of the Holocaust? We will read a range of novels and poems by major modern writers such as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Uri Zvi Greenberg, all in English translation, as well as theoretical and historical essays about Jewish messianic movements from antiquity to the present. Recommended: a course in modern Jewish literature or history.

More Info:
January 5 - March 14
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 - 10
For more info, please contact lmaizels@pdx.edu