Jewish Studies 205 - Yiddish Fiction in Translation

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Colgate University

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A.S. Nakhimovsky As European Jews began to develop a modern culture in the middle of the 19th century, an important set of writers began using Yiddish for fiction and poetry. All these writers were at least trilingual: They chose Yiddish - always the lowest status of the languages they knew - because they loved it and because it was the language their audience could really read. This course looks at Yiddish fiction and poetry written in both Eastern Europe and the United States. Students study these texts both as singular works of art and as ways of mirroring the Jewish experience for Jewish readers. In other words, students examine both texts and the multiple contexts (historical, cultural, religious, linguistic) that give them shape. This course is crosslisted as HUMN 205.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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