The course offers a survey of the rise of Modern Hebrew literary prose from its beginning in the 19^th Century to the Modernist prose of the 1960s, focusing on prominent writers and major poetic trends. Among the issues addressed will be: The literature of Jewish Enlightenment; the writing of S.Y. Abramovitch (Mendele Mocher Sforim); U.N. Gnessin and the beginning of Hebrew Modernism; Y.H. Brenner and the writing of the second aliya; lyrical realism in the writing of D. Baron; the writing of S.Y. Agnon; the 48 generation; late Israeli Modernism in the 1960s.

Attendance is mandatory, as is reading the prescribed texts according to the syllabus.