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The Image of the Jew in Literature
JL215
| TUE |
| 28 |
| OCT |
Sponsored by Romie & Esther Tager
From Chaucer to the present day, Jews have woven in and out of English literature as they have in English life. Actually more so. Even in the centuries that Jews were expelled from England, they were never long absent from the English imagination. Portrayed by anti-semites, the intrigued, the ignorant and the well disposed, we'll look at a range of portrayals through the centuries and see if we can recognise ourselves in any of them
* Chaucer and the Blood Libel
* Jews of Malta and Venice - Elizabethan caricatures?
* King James and Judas
* Kabbala creeps in - the 17th and 18th century
* Abhu Ben Adam and the Romantics
* Daniel Deronda
* Fagin and friends
* Does Zangwill cut it?
* 1956 and all that
* Have we got anything to learn from the Americans?
From Chaucer to the present day, Jews have woven in and out of English literature as they have in English life. Actually more so. Even in the centuries that Jews were expelled from England, they were never long absent from the English imagination. Portrayed by anti-semites, the intrigued, the ignorant and the well disposed, we'll look at a range of portrayals through the centuries and see if we can recognise ourselves in any of them
* Chaucer and the Blood Libel
* Jews of Malta and Venice - Elizabethan caricatures?
* King James and Judas
* Kabbala creeps in - the 17th and 18th century
* Abhu Ben Adam and the Romantics
* Daniel Deronda
* Fagin and friends
* Does Zangwill cut it?
* 1956 and all that
* Have we got anything to learn from the Americans?
Course Dates
- Tue 28th October 08
- Tue 4th November 08
- Tue 11th November 08
- Tue 18th November 08
- Tue 25th November 08
- Tue 2nd December 08
- Tue 9th December 08
- Tue 16th December 08