HIST 233 - Jewish Memoirs and Memory: Writing the Self in Jewish Society

3-4 SS, CD, WR
Second semester. Explores the focus on group memory in traditional Jewish culture and the emergence of writing about the self and individual Jewish experience. Selected memoirs from Europe and the US from early Jewish modernity to the present, studying motivation for writing, intended and actual audience, gender and class in memory and writing, the relationship between personal and group experience, memoirs as sources of Jewish history.
Identical to JWST 236.

Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25
Ms. Magnus

Credits: 3-4 hours