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

Next Offered: 2011-2012
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR
Explores the focus on group memory in traditional Jewish culture and the emergence of writing about the self and individual Jewish experience in modernity. Selected memoirs from Europe and the US from early 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, and memoirs as sources of history. No prior background required.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: S. Magnus
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 233.