Middlebury

RELI 1030

Jews & Rus Empire in Crisis

Jews and the Russian Empire in Crisis
S. An-sky (1863-1920) was a Russian-Jewish writer, ethnographer, and social activist. A prolific author, he wrote in two languages in every imaginable genre: articles, novels, plays, and songs. His best known work, The Dybbuk, immortalizes the legendary figure of a dead soul that takes possession of a living body to right an injustice suffered during its lifetime. We will study An-sky’s collected “works”: his fiction, play, memoirs, photographs, artifacts, and folk music. Our goal is a greater understanding of the cultural borderland between the two worlds, Russian and Jewish, which An-sky inhabited and portrayed at a time of crisis. (This class counts toward a concentration in Judaism within the religion major or as an elective credit towards the religion major).
Subject:
Religion
Department:
Religion
Division:
Humanities
Requirements Fulfilled:
CMP EUR WTR

Sections in Winter 2013

Winter 2013

RELI1030A-W13 Lecture (Katz, Schiffer)