This information effective for Fall 1999. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Modernity transformed Jewish culture: we will explore the ways in which changed social, political, and economic conditions produced new gender roles, professional, personal, communal, and cultural experiences, and generated powerful fictions, autobiographies, films, and poems. As the Jews entered mainstream western culture, they transformed themselves and changed their new worlds.
We will focus on short fiction and films; among the writers we will read are Isaac Bashevis Singer, Rebecca Goldstein, Saul Bellow, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and S.Y.Agnon. The first quarter will focus on Jewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Urban Life, the second will center on Modernity as Jewish Challenge & Catastrophe, and focus on the American experience. (For 1999 - 2000 it is not certain that the second quarter will be offered). While these 2 courses are connected, they can be taken separately.
LTMO 144A and LTMO144B are central courses in a new concentration in Jewish Studies. Right now this concentration is housed in Literature but it can be used with many other majors in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It can also be used as the core of (independently-organized) minors and majors in Jewish Studies and Jewish aspects of Religious Studies.
It is expected that the course will fulfill the Ethnicity requirement.
Enrollment is unlimited, though literature majors may have preference.
Responsible instructor : Murray Baumgarten, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, with some visitors, including practicing artists, and occasional lectures by other UCSC faculty working in Jewish Studies. Among these are Professors C. Soussloff, Barbara Epstein, Robert Goff, Peter Kenez, Greta Slobin, Stanley Flatte, and other members of the Jewish Studies concentration group
Among the topics to be covered will be the following:
First quarter:
1. Jewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, & the Urban Center Read Isaac Bashevis Singer, THE SLAVE; discuss traditional view of Jewish exile and how modern life changes that into idea of diaspora; read his "The Little Shoemakers," stories by Malka Tussman and Katya Molodowska, and other fiction dealing with Jewish urban life. Films: The Magician of Lublin, Uncle Moses, Avalon
2. Freethinkers, Feminists, Liberators Read stories in FOUND TREASURES, stories by Yiddish Women Writers; biography of Henrietta Szold; THE PROMISED CITY and other historical materials; selections from Hertzberg's THE ZIONIST IDEA. Hannah Arendt, The Jew as PARIAH. Films: Hester Street, Yidl Mitn Fidl
3. Reclaiming the Ruins Stories in Stavans anthology; on Holocaust, read Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel. Life IS WITH PEOPLE Films: Image Before My Eyes
Second quarter
4. American Modernity as Jewish Challenge & Catastrophe Saul Bellow, Bellarosa Connection; biography of Henrietta Szold, Golda Meir. Film: Homicide, a Woody Allen film
5. Reinventing Religious Traditions Allan Hoffman's stories; Allegra Goodman's stories Film: A Price Above Rubies
6. Homeland, Centers, Margins Rebecca Goldstein, MAZEL; Philip Roth, OPERATION SHYLOCK. FILMS: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF; RADIO DAYS
We will read major works of fiction for each of these units and will also show films and slides, and listen to musical and dramatic recordings as appropriate appropriate.
There will be a midterm, a paper, and a final
Since we will be discussing Jewish ethnicity and how the Jews came to be regarded and to think of themselves as an ethnic group, the E designation is appropriate; we will also be discussing the history of antisemitism.
Since the second quarter will focus on America, it may fulfill the American history requirement.
This is the tentative list of texts for LTMO 155A, 19th Century Russian Literature, to be taught in Fall quarter 1999 by William Nickell. For more information about the course please contact the instructor at bnickell@uclink4.berkeley.edu.
Karamzin, "Poor Liza" and selections from Notes of a Russian Traveller
Radishchev, Selections from Journey from Moscow to Petersburg
Pushkin, Evgenii Onegin
Bestuzhev-Marlinskii, "The Terrible Divination"
Gogol, Petersburg Tales
Dostoevsky, Poor Folk
Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
Tolstoy, Sebastopol Stories
Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Dobroliubov, "When Will the Real Day Come?"
Dostoevsky, "Notes from Underground" and excerpts from Diary of a Writer
Chekhov, Selected stories
Tolstoy, Hadji-Murad
Instructor: R. Terdiman
Tu-Th 4:00-5:45 pm
This senior seminar will read a large portion of Proust's greatnovel, "Remembrance of Things Past." We will also read major critical works on Proust, and a selection of Proust's own critical and theoretical writings. Readings and discussion in English, though students fluent in French will be encouraged to read the texts in the original.