Reading for today: Elye Bokher, Bovo of Altona [chapters 1–3]
Reading Schedule
Unit One 1/3/12 (Tuesday)
(Dis)organizational meeting
Unit Two 1/4/12 (Wednesday)
Reading for today: Elye Bokher, Bovo of Altona [chapters 1–3]
Unit Three 1/9/12 (Monday)
Reading for today: Anon., Anon., “The Rabbi Who Was Turned into a Werewolf”; Anon., “Haninah and the Frog”
Unit Four 1/10/12 (Tuesday)
In class: oral telling of Golem
In class: excerpts from Paul Wegener, How the Golem Came into the World
Unit Five 1/11/12 (Wednesday)
Reading for today: Tales of Khelm
Introduction to Sholem Aleichem
Unit Six 1/12/12 (Thursday)
Reading for today: Fiddler on the Roof (IMDb); Sholem Aleichem, "Hodel"; "Chava"
In class: Fiddler on the Roof
Unit Seven 1/17/12 (Tuesday)
In class: Fiddler on the Roof (concluded)
Reading for today: Fiddler on the Roof (IMDb), Review by Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Unit Eight 1/18/12 (Wednesday)
Discussion of "Hodel," "Chava," and Fiddler on the Roof
Unit Nine 1/19/12 (Thursday)
Reading for today: Sholem Aleichem, “On Account of a Hat”
Unit Ten 1/23/12 (Monday)
Surprise quiz (Don't tell Prof. Miller that you found out somehow.)
Reading for today: Sholem Aleichem, “The Pair,”“The Search”
Unit Eleven 1/24/10 (Tuesday)
Sholem Aleichem, "A Page from the Song of Songs"; "Final Pages from the Song of Songs"
Unit Twelve 1/25/12 (Wednesday)
Unit Thirteen 1/26/12 (Thursday)
Midterm
Unit Fourteen 1/30/12 (Monday)
Reading for today: Y.-L. Perets, "Bontsha the Silent"
; Avrom Reyzen, "Tuition for the Rebbe"
Unit Fifteen 1/31/12 (Tuesday)
Zalman Schneour, "The Girl"; Lamed Shapiro, "White Chalah "
Unit Sixteen 2/1/12 (Wednesday)
Reading for today: Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Why the Geese Shrieked”; “The Washwoman”; “The Strong Ones”
Unit Seventeen 2/2/12 (Thursday)
Film: Enemies: A Love Story
Reading for today: “Enemies: A Love Story (1989),” Internet Movie Database
Unit Eighteen 2/6/12 (Monday)
Film: Enemies: A Love Story (cont.)
Reading for today: “Enemies: A Love Story,”review by Roger Ebert
Unit Nineteen 2/7/12 (Tuesday)
Film: Enemies: A Love Story (concl.)
In class: discussion of thesis paper
Unit Twenty 2/8/12 (Wednesday)
Reading for today: Isaac Bashevis Singer, “A Wedding in Brownsville”
Unit Twenty-One 2/9/12 (Thursday)
Bernard Malamud, “The Lady of the Lake”
Unit Twenty-Two 2/13/12 (Monday)
Film: The Chosen (cont.)
Reading for today: “The Chosen (1981),” Internet Movie Database
Unit Twenty-Three 2/14/12 (Tuesday)
Film: The Chosen (concl.)
Reading for today: “The Chosen (1981),”selected reviews
Unit Twenty-Four 2/15/14 (Wednesday)
Reading for today: Leon Kobrin, “A Common Language”; Chaver Paver, “Yom Kippur on Ebbets Field”
Unit Twenty-Five 2/16/12 (Thursday)
Midterm
Unit Twenty-Six 2/20/12 (Monday)
Reading for today: Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Alone in the Wild Forest” (handout)
Extra credit reading for today, “Introduction,” The Uses of Enchantment
Discussion of Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Unit Twenty-Seven 2/21/12 (Tuesday)
Discussion, Conclusions
Reading in class: Something from Nothing
Unit Twenty-Eight 3/8/12 (Thursday)
Review for final exam
Thesis papers due in class today or as e-mail attachments today or tomorrow by midnight
Final Exam 3/13/12 (Tuesday) 11:30 AM–1:18 PM
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