SPRING 2001

This information effective for Spring 2001.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

Modern Literary Studies

[LTMO-144B] [LTMO-144E] [LTMO-152C]

144B. Modernity as Jewish Challenge and Catastrophe:
The American Experience

Instructor: Bruce Thompson (brucet@cats.ucsc.edu)

1.  Immigrant Narratives

Arthur Hertzberg, "The Russian Jews Arrive," in The Jews in America
A Bintl Briv (A Bundle of Letters), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology
Abraham Cahan, "A Ghetto Wedding," in Norton Anthology
Mary Antin, "The Lie," in Norton Anthology
Anna Yezierska, "How I Found America" (reader)
Cynthia Ozick, "Envy, or Yiddish in America," in Norton Anthology

2.  Immigrant Families

Arthur Hertzberg, "The Invention of the Jewish Mother," in The Jews in America
Alfred Kazin, "The Kitchen," in Norton Anthology
Henry Roth, Call It Sleep

3.  Jews Without Money: The 1930s

Michael Gold, "Fifty Cents a Night," in Norton Anthology
Clifford Odets, Awake and Sing!, in Norton Anthology
Nathanael West, "International Jewish Bankers and Bolsheviks," in Norton Anthology
S. J. Perelman, "Nathanael West: A Portrait," in Norton Anthology

4.  Hooray For Hollywood!

Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust
Daniel Fuchs, "A Hollywood Diary," in Norton Anthology

5.  America And The Holocaust

Arthur Hertzberg, "FDR: The Benevolent King of the Jews"
Isaac Bashevis Singer, "A Wedding in Brownsville" (reader)
Singer, "A Party in Miami Beach," in Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction, ed. Ted Solotaroff & Nessa Rappaport
Singer, Meshugah
Lore Segal, "The Reverse Bug," in Schocken Book
Cynthia Ozick, "Bloodshed," in Schocken Book; "The Shawl" in Norton Anthology
Deirdre Levinson, "April 19th, 1985," in Schocken Book

6.  Red Scare

Arthur Hertzberg, "After the War"
Norman Mailer, "The Man Who Studied Yoga" (reader)
Philip Roth, I Married a Communist

7.  The Sixties I

Arthur Hertzberg, "With JFK, To Power"
Philip Roth, American Pastoral

8.  The Sixties II

Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet

9.  Blacks and Jews

Bernard Malamud, "The Angel Levine" (reader) and The Tenant
Irving Howe, "Black Boys and Native Sons" (reader)
Ralph Ellison, "The World and the Jug" (reader)
Cynthia Ozick, "Literary Blacks and Jews" (reader)
Grace Paley, "Zagrowsky Tells," in Schocken Book

10.  Israel and Identity

Arthur Hertzberg, "Turmoil at Home, Glory in Israel" and "Conclusion: The End of Immigrant Memory"
Joanna Spiro, "Three Thousand Years of Your History…," in Schocken Book
Nessa Rappoport, "The Woman Who Lost Her Names," in Schocken Book
Eppie Zore'a, "Orchards," in Schocken Book
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, "The Melting Pot," in Schocken Book
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144E. Hebrew Poetry

Spring 2001
Instructor: Murray Baumgarten
Stevenson 152
MW 5:30-7:15 p.m.

Office hours: MW 4-5 p.m.
222 Kresge College, 459-2566
E-mail: dickens@cats.ucsc.edu

Course Description: 

The how and what and why of reading Hebrew Poetry, from Biblical to modern times, revealed by practice with different forms, modes, and methods. This bilingual course will be conducted in English, with readings in Hebrew and English facing-page translation. Intensive discussions, lectures, group meetings, a midterm, paper, and a final as part of the pleasure of thinking about this foundational tradition.

Required Reading

Recommended Reading

Reading Schedule

March 28: Introduction - What is it we do when we read Hebrew poetry

Reading Biblical Poetry
April 1 - 11: Selections from Carmi and The Defiant Muse

Reading Contemporary Poets
April 16 - 30: Selections from Amichai, Carmi, The Defiant Muse

Reading Earlier Poets
May 2 - 14: The Medieval Achievement; Modern Bialik and Tchernikhovsky

Reading Yehuda Amichai
May 16 - 24: Amichai and the Literary History of Modern Hebrew Poetry

May 28: Memorial Day Holiday

May 30: New/Old Directions in Hebrew Poetry
How do we continue to read poetry after a class in reading poetry? How have our lives been changed by studying the reading of Hebrew poetry?

Final Exam: Wednesday, June 6, 8 -11 a.m., 152 Stevenson

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152C. The Modern Japanese Novel

Instructor: Earl Jackson, Jr.

Go to: http://www.anotherscene.com/jnovel.html

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