Jewish Studies Summer 2025 Online Bonus Course
Meets for 8 Tuesday afternoons, from July 15 to September 2 via Zoom, taught by Spertus Faculty member Dr. Shana Mauer!
The preferred registration deadline is June 2, 2025.
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For prospective students, the last day to apply to take this course is May 19, 2025.
It will not be possible to register for this course after June 16. We greatly appreciate your adherence to this deadline.
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Summer 2025 | Weekly Online Bonus Course | July-September 2025
Classic Works of Israeli Literature
Taught by Dr. Shana Mauer
Course 3270 | 3 quarter-hour credits
Fulfills MAJS Elective, DSJS Text or Elective, and DHL Text or Elective Core Reading Course
8 Sessions | Meets Tuesdays from 12 PM to 2:30 PM CT via Zoom
July 15, 22, and 29 | August 5, 12, 19, and 26 | September 2
In this course, explore rich, multi-layered texts that are classics of the Israeli canon. Written by writers who have been celebrated globally as leading authors, these works tell the story of the Jewish people and of Israel, as well as the struggles and triumphs that have marked the intersection between Jewish and Israeli history. In these stories we will examine questions of national rebirth and Jewish tradition, the plight of immigrants adjusting to an entirely new world and landscape, in addition to the place of Holocaust memory in a Jewish country with an uneasy relationship with the Diaspora. At the same time, we will encounter many of the best stories, narratives, characters and voices from the corpus of Israeli literature.