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Course Description

This course explores the work of two 20th-century Jewish practitioners of the short story, Isaac Bashevis Singer (winner of the Nobel prize) and Bernard Malamud (namesake of an American short story award). While both authors explored the plight of Jewish people in the modern world, from historical Eastern Europe to contemporary America, they each did so with a moral sensibility that elevated their work beyond mere chronicle. Our discussion will focus on how each author cultivates their own moral sensibility by way of their literary craft, and in the end will probe more generally the ethical capacities of short fiction.

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