Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Religion and Classics
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-189288 RELC 184-1 Jewish History and Religion on Film: From the Holocaust and Beyond Spring 2025 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 325 PM 605 PM 01/21/2025 05/11/2025
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: FMST 184-1, HIST 297-1, JWST 184-1 (P), RELC 184-1
Instructors: Andrea Gondos
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Description: This course will trace the representation of Jews in cinema with a special focus on the Holocaust, events that led up to it, and the post-Holocaust world in which Jews had to find new meaning to existential, philosophical, and religious questions. Throughout the course we will pay special attention to issues of gender, the voices and experiences of women,  the LGBTQ community, ethnic and racial differences and divides. In our in-class conversations and analyses we will develop tools to deconstruct major historical events in Jewish history exposing the ways in which they transformed the religious, cultural, and social matrix of Jewish communities locally and globally.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-172426 RELC 184-1 Jewish Music and Film Across History Spring 2024 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 325 PM 605 PM 01/17/2024 05/11/2024
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: FMST 184-1, HIST 297-1, JWST 184-1 (P), RELC 184-1
Instructors: Andrea Gondos
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Description: This course will survey the way in which Jewish music and film engaged the issues of Jewish history, memory, and identity. The first half of the course will focus on the cultural and religious role of song and music in Judaism from their Biblical origins to contemporary Klezmer. The second part of the course will explore the medium of film for the portrayal of Jews, the gendered dimensions of Jewish religious and daily life, as well as formative events in Jewish history. Our discussions of both music and film will aim to contextualise Jewish life and culture in broader discourses of the surrounding society. We will also reflect on geographical and ethnic differences, such as the Sephardi-Ashkenazi divide, cultural influences on the Jews in Yemen and North Africa, Europe and North America. We will also trace enduring themes such as spirituality, suffering, redemption, and personal/world repair (tiqqun) that have played an important role in the development of Jewish culture.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer