GERMAN-JEWISH CULTURE SINCE THE 18TH CENTURY

GERMAN 278

Introduction to German-speaking cultures. Topics may include Weimar culture, Nazi culture, Berlin, fin-de-siecle Vienna, minorities, representatives of the Holocaust, Germanic mythology, East Germany, Germans in America. Readings and lectures in English.

GERMAN/JEWISH/LITTRANS 269

Exploration of European Yiddish fiction, poetry, folklore, and cinema, with a focus on works of the 19th and 20th centuries.

HISTORY/JEWISH/SOC 518

Through a critical and interdisciplinary lens, review the history and major theories of modern antisemitism in its past and present-day forms. Read scholarship on antisemitism, as well as canonical antisemitic texts, with attention to geographic, chronological, and cultural contexts. Learn about the origins, major themes, continuities and changes, and surprising endurance of antisemitism. Use historical thinking to understand antisemitism as a major historical problem and to address related contemporary issues with nuance.

GERMAN/JEWISH/LITTRANS 279

Exploration of American Yiddish poetry, fiction, theater, and cinema created by European Jews in the United States.

GERMAN 742

Selected topics in German culture.