Jewish American Literature and Culture
Examines literary and cultural production about the Jewish experience in America. Considers ways in which American Jews assimilate and resist assimilation while Jewish writers, filmmakers, comedians, and graphic novelists imitate and transform American life and literature—with particular emphasis on questions of immigration, identity, gender, sexuality, race, inter-generational trauma, and cultural memory.
This course is also listed as JEW ST 359 (DIV, A&H/SSc) and ENGL 357 (DIV, A&H). This is all the same course. There are many more seats in JEW ST 359 (total of 40) than GLITS 253A (total of 5) Please sign up for JEW ST 359 if GLITS 253A is full.
The reading list includes: short fiction by, among others, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Isaac Bashevis Singer; graphic novels/comic books by Art Spiegelman, Liana Finck, and Amy Kurzweil; several films, including by the Coen brothers; and other materials.
Prof. Sasha Senderovich -- https://sashasenderovich.weebly.com/-- contact senderov@uw.edu with questions
The cover of a 1933 cookbook, Crisco Recipes For The Jewish Housewife, produced by Crisco's parent company Procter & Gamble, to promote the vegetable-based oil to the new wave of Jewish immigrants. This is a bilingual edition: in Yiddish and English.