Art & Artifact: Jewish Life & Literature

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Advanced creative writing workshop focused on the way that personal archives -- souvenirs, letters, photographs, and other personal artifacts -- are valuable memento mori that can serve as pathways for both creative writing and guideposts for historical research. The reading material focuses on the experience of Jewish immigration in the 20th century and includes texts by notable Jewish authors. Students will write a critical paper, but most of the student writing will be creative non-fiction explorations of personal history and the objects that have survived the past.