Jewish American Literature and Culture

JEW ST 359
  • Quarters: Autumn
  • General Education Requirements: A&H, SSc

Literature, film, graphic novels, and other cultural artifacts that pertain to experiences of Jews in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. How questions of immigration, assimilation, identity, religious expression, gender, sexuality, race, intergenerational trauma, and memory have been and continue to be represented by American Jewish writers, comedians, filmmakers, and other culture-makers.