Loading...

Course Description

The work of Isaac Bashevis Singer is a blend of literary worlds. He is the only author to receive the Nobel Prize for work in Yiddish, the Language of Jewish civilization when Singer was growing up in Poland. Singer was also unusual in growing up in an Orthodox Jewish ghetto where his father was an in influential rabbi. Singer absorbed the community’s complex world of superstitious beliefs on the one hand and on the other he was immersed in Western philosophers, Spinoza in particular. His final world consisted of Holocaust refugees in America with lives were misshapen by tortures from which there was no remedy. This course focuses on Singer’s unique dissection of the human soul, and the truths buried underneath the rubble of superstition, mysticism and atrocities that soak the human heart.

Notes

Online registration deadline: Thursday, December 29 at 5 pm CT.

Course Syllabus

Loading...
Thank you for your interest in this course. Unfortunately, the course you have selected is currently not open for enrollment. Please complete a Course Inquiry so that we may promptly notify you when enrollment opens.
Required fields are indicated by .