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Johns Hopkins University | AS.211.117

Freshman Seminar: Writing as Resistance: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe

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Jewish writers during and after the Holocaust, who took up their pen as a means of resistance and memorialization, stand in a long line of Jewish writers who responded to expulsions, persecutions and pogroms throughout Jewish history. This course will examine the themes, tropes and archetypes of Jewish responses to catastrophe from the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem to the Holocaust.

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