Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: WHO IS (NOT) A JEW?

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explore problems with identity-- ethnic, political, spiritual-- in the case of the other Jew. Consider themes of anti-Semitism 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. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 164.