Fall 04 Courses
Judaic Studies Courses: Summer 2004
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15 Judc 374-101 - Jewish Humor/Women'sHumor - Dr. Naveh
This course investigates humor in its various guises and highlights its place in American society as it negotiates race, ethnicity, gender, and class relations. Students explore through the study of primary documents (stand up comedians/comediennes, Jewish and other ethnic groups, original video tapes and films stressing Jewish/women's experience in America, live performances, interviews, etc.) the particular ways in which men and women confront social, racial, and psychological problems by using humor. Students learn abou the psychological complexity of humor, laughter, etc., the catharsis experienced through laughter, and the specific ways in which humor reveals the cultural identity of a people, a country, or an ethnic group.
15 Judc 383-101 - Literature of the Holocaust - Dr. Naveh
This is a survey of selected literary and responses to the Holocaust, with primary attention to texts written by victims, survivors, and scholars, who ponder the dilemmas of the postöHolocaust world. Interdisciplinary in orientataion, this course is designed to make students to think critically and examine the Ways in which writers of various socio-cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds depict the Jewish experience on the background of the events of World War II. Students investigate whether we are able to approach this literature with conventional critical methodology, bearing in mind literary hierarchy of aestetics and values, or, whether Holocaust literature constitutes a unique literature which has to define its own aesthetic formulation. Is literature of the Holocaust an extention of centuries of Jewish response? Does it offer a new paradigm and a new context of reading? Should Holocaust literature be read only as literature, or as "Kaddish" a prayer for the dead? Can there be a choice of aesthetics over ethics?
15 Judc 550-101 - Film and the Holocaust - Dr. Krome
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the one of the primary means whereby we remember the Shoah: film. Students will examine a variety of cinematic representations of the Holocaust, starting with several Nazi propaganda films. The class will also consider how the immediate post-war documentaries, which set the tone for many later films. Students should expect this class to be much more inter-active than a traditional lecture class. Students will participate in class discussion and are required to write several analytical papers.
Special schedule: ASAP (June 6, 13, 20)
15 Judc 348 - New Testament in its Jewish Matrix - Dr. Fine
This course will focus on the Jewish aspects of the New Testament, with special reference to the Gospels. We will set Jesus within the Judaism of his day through study of selected New Testametn texts against the background of Second Temple period texts and archaeology. Special emphasis will be placed upon the institutional frameworks in which Jesus operated, the Temple and the synagogue. We will also study the writings of Paul against the background of Judaism in the Roman diaspora. Fieldtrips.
Department of Judaic Studies, 50 McMicken, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0169 E-mail: Judaic.Studies@uc.edu Tel: 513.556.2297
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