Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Jewish Folklore
Term
2018C
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML283401
Course number integer
283
Meeting times
TR 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting location
WILL 24
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Dan Ben-Amos
Description
The Jews are among the few nations and ethnic groups whose oral tradition occurs in literary and religious texts dating back more than two thousand years. This tradition changed and diversified over the years in terms of the migration of Jews into different countries and historical, social, and cultural changes that these countries underwent. The course attempts to capture thei historical and ehtnic diversity of Jewish folklore in a variety of oral liteary forms.
Course number only
283
Cross listings
FOLK280401, NELC258401, JWST260401
Use local description
No