Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WHO IS (NOT) A JEW? ***** Explore problems with identity--ethnic, political, spiritual --in the case of the other Jew. Consider themes of antisemitism and philo-semitism, insider and outsider, tradition and innovation. Examine competing views purveyed through diverse media such as literature, film, art, and music. Selected texts from St. Paul, Shakespeare, Dickens, Marx, George Eliot, Freud, Chagall, Cynthia Ozick, Bob Dylan, and Woody Allen. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Kaplan.