Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq

• Above class meets JSTU-J 203
• Topic: Culture, Memory, Identity: Yiddish in the Post-Holocaust World
• Above class meets with JSTU-J 203
• IUB GenEd A&H credit
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit

Topic: Yiddish in post-holocaust worl

This course will focus on the fate of Yiddish language and culture in the post WWII world, primarily in the USA. It will offer a concise survey of the long cultural history of pre-modern Ashkenazi Jewish civilization; the rise of modern Yiddish culture until the Holocaust; and will then focus directly on postwar conditions and changing fortunes of a major modern Jewish language in the wake of physical annihilation or political repression of most of its native speakers in mid-20th century Europe. Special attention will be paid to the socio-cultural trends of modernization, secularization, and the largely contemporaneous rise of modern Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy since the late 19th century and earlier and their latter-day growths and evolution in the postwar period, especially in North America.

Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit

• Topic:Multicultural Germany: Multiculturalism, Nation, and Empire
• IUB GenEd A&H credit

Topic: Multiculturlism, nation empire

Topic: Multicultural Germany: Multiculturalism, Nation, and Empire Does multiculturalism conflict with the idea of nation? Against the background of ethnonationalism and imperialism, we will explore novels, stories, videos and art spanning the last 100 years from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to modern "post-national" Germany. In these works, protagonists struggle to reconcile individual and cultural identities with the social and political demands of belonging to a people or a nation. Along with readings by authors such as Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Roth, Sasa Stanisic, Jenny Erpenbeck and Navid Kermani, and videos and photography by Hito Styerl, Alan Schechner, Haroun Farocki, Fatih Akin, we will read critical articles inquiring into politics, policies and polemics concerning homelands, borders, indigeneity, migration, integration, and subcultures. Required Books: Sasa Stanisic, Where You Come From (Tin House, 2021): ISBN-13: 978-1951142759 Joseph Roth, Weights and Measures (Penguin, 2017): ISBN-13: 978-0241307441 Jenny Erpenbeck, Visitation (New Directions, 2010): ISBN-13: 978-0811218351 Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories (Schocken, 1995): ISBN-13: 978-0805210552

Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd A&H credit

• Above class meets second eight weeks only
• Topic: The Diverse City in Contemporary Germany
• IUB GenEd A&H credit

Topic: Diverse city contemp germany

The Diverse-City in contemporary Germany There is no better place to learn about and examine Germany as a plural democracy than the German city. We will discuss the topics of city life and art, economic and social mobility, migrant communities, and protest. We will read works by German authors of the 20th and 21st century such as Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, Jenny Erpenbeck and others, who discuss life in the city and its present and past politics, modern architecture, East German cities, colonial heritage, and monuments. We will visit the Eskenazi Museum of Art and discuss Drawings of German Expressionism that depict city life.