In class: oral telling
of Golem
In class: excerpts from Paul Wegener, How the Golem Came into the
World
Reading Schedule
Unit One 1/4/10 (Monday)
(Dis)organizational meeting
Unit Two 1/5/10 (Tuesday)
Reading for today: Elye Bokher, Bovo of Altona [chapters 1–3]
Unit Three 1/6/10 (Wednesday)
Reading for today: Anon., Anon., “The Rabbi Who Was Turned into a Werewolf”; Anon., “Haninah and the Frog”
Unit Four 1/7/10 (Thursday)
In class: oral telling of Golem
In class: excerpts from Paul Wegener, How the Golem Came into the World
Unit Five 1/11/10 (Monday)
Reading for today: Tales of Khelm
Introduction to Sholem Aleichem
Unit Six 1/12/10 (Tuesday)
Reading for today: Fiddler on the Roof (IMDb); Sholem Aleichem, "Hodel"; "Chava"
In class: Fiddler on the Roof
Unit Seven 1/13/10 (Wednesday)
In class: Fiddler on the Roof (concluded)
Unit Eight 1/14/10 (Thursday)
Discussion of "Hodel," "Chava," and Fiddler on the Roof
Reading for today: Fiddler on the Roof (IMDb), Review by Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Unit Nine 1/18/10 (Monday)
Martin Luth King, Jr. (class does not meet)
Reading for today: Sholem Aleichem, “On Account of a Hat”
Unit Ten 1/19/10 (Tuesday)
Reading for today: Sholem Aleichem, “The Pair,”“The Search”
Unit Eleven 1/20/10 (Wednesday)
Surprise quiz (Don't tell Prof. Miller that you found out somehow.)
Sholem Aleichem, "A Page from the Song of Songs"; "Final Pages from the Song of Songs"
Unit Eleven 1/21/10 (Thursday)
Unit Twelve 1/25/10 (Monday)
Midterm
Unit Thirteen 1/26/10 (Tuesday)
Reading for today: Y.-L. Perets, "Bontsha the Silent"
; Avrom Reyzen, "Tuition for the Rebbe"
Unit Fourteen 1/27/10 (Wednesday)
Zalman Schneour, "The Girl"; Lamed Shapiro, "White Chalah "
Unit Fifteen 1/28/10 (Thursday)
Reading for today: Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Why the Geese Shrieked”; “The Washwoman”; “The Strong Ones”
In class: discussion of thesis papers
Unit Sixteen 2/1/10 (Monday)
Film: Enemies: A Love Story
Reading for today: “Enemies: A Love Story (1989),” Internet Movie Database;
Unit Seventeen 2/2/4/06 (Tuesday)
Reading for today: Isaac Bashevis Singer, “A Wedding in Brownsville”
Unit Eighteen 2/3/10 (Wednesday)
Bernard Malamud, “The Lady of the Lake”
Catch-up discussionFilm: Crossing Delancey
Reading for today: “Crossing Delancey (1988),” Internet Movie Database
Conclusions, Review, Something from Nothing
Reading for today: ; Leon Kobrin, “A Common Language”; Chaver Paver, “Yom Kippur on Ebbets Field”
Thesis papers due in class today or as e-mail attachments today or tomorrow
Final Exam 3/16/08 (Tuesday) 11:30 AM–1:18 PM
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