2017 - 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0680-3066-01 | Mizrahi Identity, Ashkenazi Identity ? the Beginning: Medieval Hebrew Narrative | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This course focuses on possible readings in some of the medieval Hebrew stories in their various cultural and literary contexts, and the way these stories mirror, and influence, cultural and social perceptions of medieval Jewish societies, with special attention to the distinction between "East" and "West" in Jewish cultures.