ENG 325 - American Jewish Literature

Course Cross-listed with JS 325
3 credit(s)
Area/Group Designation: Literature

What is American Jewish fiction? What makes it American and/or Jewish? This class will explore the development of a critical genre in American literature through a selection of authors whose works have come to shape the fields of American Jewish fiction and of world literature in general. Students in this class will read works examining the great wave of migration from eastern Europe in the twentieth-century, the Americanization of Jewish literature following World War II, and American Jewish responses to the Holocaust and Israel, among other themes. The course will conclude with a focus on current trends in American Jewish fiction.
Prerequisite(s): Any literature course or permission of the instructor.

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