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Russian 285 Marina Aptekman, Russian "Two centuries of coexistence: Russian Jewish Culture" discusses Russian Jewish culture and its extraordinary role in Russian literary and social history. The Jews of Russia created an original culture that combined profound religious piety with extreme secularism, and political and aesthetic conservatism with daring experiments in literature, arts, and film. The course will cover all of the most important issues of Russian-Jewish coexistence and will focus on the cultural, linguistic and ideological transform-ation of Russian Jews in the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, from pious Yiddish-speaking shtetl dwellers to secular Russian-speaking urbanites. Literary works of major 19th- and 20th-century Russian writers, and guest lectures on art, religion, history and political history, will provide the primary material for discussion. - Course begins Wednesday, Jan 25 |