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The great writers of modern Jewish literature captured the struggles, questions, and aspirations of a people entering modernity. Confronted by the promises and perils of emancipation and assimilation, Communism and capitalism, Jews turned to literature to understand—and confront—the challenges of their age.
The result was one of the richest bodies of writing in the modern world: a treasury of stories that continues to offer insight, moral reflection, and profound human understanding to Jews and to all thoughtful readers.
In this forthcoming online course, Professor Ruth R. Wisse will guide you through some of modern history's greatest Jewish literary masterpieces.
Through the works of Sholem Aleichem, Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Haim Hazaz, and others, you'll see how Jewish writers wrestled with God and man, tradition and change, suffering and joy—and how their words continue to illuminate both the human and the Jewish condition.
Each lecture will combine literary analysis with historical and moral reflection. Professor Wisse introduces each author's life and world, unpacks the artistry of each story, and reveals the enduring wisdom within their work.
Episode 1 of the course will be released on November 24, with a new lecture released each subsequent week.
Just as they did at the turn of the century, Jews today face new challenges to their ideas, traditions, and identity. Through this course, you'll discover how an earlier generation confronted similar trials—and how their creativity, courage, and faith allowed them to survive and flourish.
Ruth R. Wisse is one of our age's preeminent teachers and scholars of Jewish literature and ideas. A Senior Fellow at Tikvah and professor emerita of literature at Harvard, her books on literary subjects include The Modern Jewish Canon (2003), an edition of Jacob Glatstein's two-volume fictional memoir The Glatstein Chronicles (2010), and No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (2013). Her original translation of Chaim Grade's My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner was published by Koren's Maggid Press. She is also the author of two political studies, If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews (1992) and Jews and Power (2007). Her memoir, Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, was released in 2021. She has previously taught Tikvah online courses on the New York Intellectuals, Georgie Elliot's Daniel Deronda, and Tevye the Dairyman.
The result was one of the richest bodies of writing in the modern world: a treasury of stories that continues to offer insight, moral reflection, and profound human understanding to Jews and to all thoughtful readers.
In this forthcoming online course, Professor Ruth R. Wisse will guide you through some of modern history's greatest Jewish literary masterpieces.
Through the works of Sholem Aleichem, Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Haim Hazaz, and others, you'll see how Jewish writers wrestled with God and man, tradition and change, suffering and joy—and how their words continue to illuminate both the human and the Jewish condition.
Each lecture will combine literary analysis with historical and moral reflection. Professor Wisse introduces each author's life and world, unpacks the artistry of each story, and reveals the enduring wisdom within their work.
Episode 1 of the course will be released on November 24, with a new lecture released each subsequent week.
Just as they did at the turn of the century, Jews today face new challenges to their ideas, traditions, and identity. Through this course, you'll discover how an earlier generation confronted similar trials—and how their creativity, courage, and faith allowed them to survive and flourish.
Ruth R. Wisse is one of our age's preeminent teachers and scholars of Jewish literature and ideas. A Senior Fellow at Tikvah and professor emerita of literature at Harvard, her books on literary subjects include The Modern Jewish Canon (2003), an edition of Jacob Glatstein's two-volume fictional memoir The Glatstein Chronicles (2010), and No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (2013). Her original translation of Chaim Grade's My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner was published by Koren's Maggid Press. She is also the author of two political studies, If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews (1992) and Jews and Power (2007). Her memoir, Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, was released in 2021. She has previously taught Tikvah online courses on the New York Intellectuals, Georgie Elliot's Daniel Deronda, and Tevye the Dairyman.
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