JWST 110 - Latin American and Spanish Literacy and Cultural Topics

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as HISP 110) Topic for 2015/16b: Sephardim. This course surveys the cultures of the Sephardim, that is the Jews of the Iberian Peninsular and their heirs, across several centuries and several lands. Study begins with both the medieval Christian, and especially Muslim kingdoms of what is now Spain, continues through the long century of forced conversion culminating in the expulsion of 1492, and follows the exiles from Iberia to two centers of Sephardic culture in early modern Italy and Amsterdam. There is also an epilogue, turning further east and to more recent times, considering Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thus, the course is organized and contextualized historically, but the primary materials, principle methodologies and theoretical constructs are drawn rather from literary and religious studies and philosophy. Mr. Bush.

Two 75-minute periods.