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GLITS 311 C - Russian and Soviet Jewish Experience (also offered as JEW ST 427 A and RUSS 427 A)
MW 1:30-3:20, taught by Professor Sasha Senderovich
5 credits, A&H
Description: Examines the literature and cinema dealing with the experience of Jews from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from the end of the 19th century to the present; the experience of Jews in imperial-era and Soviet-era Ukraine will be particularly emphasized. We will study: the cultural artifacts dealing with the inter-ethnic violence of the late Imperial period; experiences of and reflections on the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalinism, the Holocaust, the post-Stalin period; the place of Jews as individuals and members of a minority group within Soviet society, ideology, and culture; migration and emigration; everyday life in the USSR, and among immigrant communities in America and elsewhere at the beginning of the 21st century.
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