Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

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 outside, tradition and innovation. Examine competing views purveyed through diverse media such as literature, film, art, and music. Selected texts from St. Paul, Shakespere, Dickens, Marx, George Eliot, Freud, Chagall, Cynthia Ozick, Bob Dylan, and Woody Allen. ***** Enrollment limtied to 25.