JWST 35 Remembering Jewish Lives
This is an interdisciplinary course on Jewish Lives in Central Germany that will focus on some remarkable Jewish intellectuals, painters, writers, political leaders and scholars who lived in German-speaking Central Europe. Their lives will be studied through novels, essays, autobiographies, and personal letters, but also through the arts – film, music, poetry, paintings, and sculpture. Taught in Berlin as part of the JWST/GERM FSP, this course will make extensive use of the city, its memorials, physical locations of historical events, and its remarkable current population of Jewish intellectuals who will give guest talks to the class, sometimes in conjunction with the History course taught during the FSP.