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

This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and German Language and Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 hours
Attribute: CD, 4SS, WINT

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 United States 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.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: S. Magnus
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HIST 233