Course Catalog - 2008-2009

     

RELI 329 - GERMAN-JEWISH CULTURE & LIT

Long Title: GERMAN-JEWISH CULTURE & LITERATURE
Department: Religion
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: The course introduces ethnic and minority studies of fiction and essays by Jewish Germans from the Enlightenment unlit after 1945. What is this "Hyphenated" identity? Has the Holocaust rendered a dual identity impossible? We consider how the dilemmas of assimilation relate to contemporary cultural struggles.