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Course Description


Instructor: Bert and Jill Parks

This class will bring alive Jewish short stories by modern and ancient writers. They were originally written in Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Russian and English, yet all are very clearly Jewish. The stories convey the impact of religion, community and family on every aspect of life from the marketplace to the bedroom. Saul Bellow writes from his introduction, “In them, laughter and trembling are so curiously mingled that it is not easy to determine the relations of the two.� We will be covering stories by writers including Sholom Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Phillip Roth, Grace Paley, and other Jewish writers not as well known.
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