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JSTU-L 270: COMING TO AMERICA: HISTORY AND MEMORY OF IMMIGRATION IN JEWISH LITERATURE (3 credits)

Offered at IU Bloomington by College of Arts and Sciences.

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Studies the encounter of Jews immigrating to America in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Readings (in English translation) of memoirs, prose fiction and poetry composed in English, Hebrew and Yiddish illustrate the clash of civilizations and ensuing acculturation. Assimilation and reciprocal effects are also explored.

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