Jewish Studies 303 - Jewish Fiction before the War

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Colgate University

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A.S. Nakhimovsky The focus of this course is on the great novels and short stories written by European Jews before the Holocaust. All of the writers - even Kafka, whose fictional world is non-Jewish - reflect a Jewish consciousness and a Jewish confrontation with modernity. Modernity in these works takes different and often conflicting forms. In some works it is revolution (the promise of communism as a solution to the Jewish question); in other work, emigration, Zionism, or radical assimilation to the surrounding culture, what that happens to be. Several books - most prominently those of Sholem Aleichem, Agnon, and Kafka - take up the question of God's justice. Several books deal with the loss of identity. A variety of 20th-century themes (political radicalism, bourgeois desires and bourgeois impurity, a desire to uproot and a search for roots) run through the texts, always in different combinations. All readings are in English translation. (Form erly JWST 203.) This course is crosslisted as HUMN 3

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3.00

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www.colgate.edu

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(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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