Yiddish @ Sydney

The Tel Aviv Yiddish Summer Program 2007
June 24 until July 19, 2007

www.telavivuniv.org/programs/summer.htm

Time to restart the administrative processes of the year. Before a summary of the conference "The Cultural Geography of Modern Yiddish", let me present this announcement:

Since the “Great Migration” of the 1880s, the boroughs of New York have played an integral role in Yiddish literature. Those who had migrated from Eastern Europe to the Lower East Side found their lives dramatized in stories written by beloved authors, from Sholem Aleykhem to Isaac Bashevis Singer.

This course will examine various texts in which New York is the primary setting: works by the sweatshop poets, the inzikh, Sholem Aleykhem, Sholem Asch, Lamed Shapiro and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Yiddish life in the tenements of the Lower East Side will be analysed through play and film as well. Thematically the topics will range from early migration to unionism, from building new lives in the New World to mourning lives lost.

Thematically the topics will range from early migration to unionism, from building new lives in the New World to mourning lives lost.

Assessment includes participation (in class and online) in the discussion of material under analysis and the presentation of a 4000-5000 word essay.

For further information, contact Dr Jennifer Dowling in SLC.