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English 389W/Jewish Studies 375W Heather Julien Office hours: Tuesdays 1 - 3pm in Cox Computing Center (note location change) course description From Savannah to Charleston, Nashville to New Orleans, there has been a recent explosion of interest and cultural production surrounding Jewish cultural identity in the U.S. South. We will read memoirs, nonfiction, historiography, playscripts, and archival materials about Southern Jewish life from 1733 to the present, with a special focus on cultural hybridity and culinary traditions. Students will do archival research in the Rose Library and produce multimedia projects presenting their artifacts and positioning them in a historical context for multiple audiences. Students blog, create glossaries, conduct secondary research on an individual subtopic, and design a multipage website containing analysis, interpretation and multimodal treatments of the material. Final project: An eight-page website containing analysis of secondary research on an individual topic created during the course. Unit One: Setting the Stage: Jewish Roots in Southern Soil 1/12 Eric Goldstein, “Southern Jews, Whiteness and Jim Crow”; register weebly subdomain; first blog post 1/17 Clive Webb, “Black-Jewish Relations in the Twentieth Century South”; digital citizenship, image citation and attribution, blog design 1/19 Hasia Diner, “Entering the Mainstream of Modern Jewish History: Peddlers and the American Jewish South”; Writing in the Disciplines (WID) draft workshop 1/24 Robert N. Rosen, “Jewish Confederates”; WID due Unit Two: Family and Community Close-Up: The Jew Store 1/26 Stella Suberman, The Jew Store: A Family Memoir 1/31 Suberman cont.; research topics 2/2 Units 1/ recap; Research proposal draft workshop Unit Three: A Journalist Writes the Jewish South: The Provincials 2/7 “Tobacco Town Jews,” preliminary research write-up workshop 2/9 “The Immigrants”; website maps 2/16 “The Struggle Against Conformity” 2/21 “Coming of Age” 2/23 “Discrimination,” “Jews and Blacks” 2/28 “Atlanta” 3/2 Katie Rawson and Tarina Rosen, Jewish Studies research workshop Spring break 3/6-3/10 Unit Four: Alfred Uhry and Jewish Atlanta 3/14 Driving Miss Daisy play text; individual conference sign-ups 3/16 Driving Miss Daisy. Bruce Beresford, Dir. film excerpts 3/21 Rose Library Manuscripts DMD archival activity with Gabrielle Dudley; publishing archival artifacts: permissions, citation Unit Five: Kosher Grits: Culinary Cultural Exchanges and Influences 3/23 Michael Twitty, Afroculinaria blog (“About,”; “Jewish Stuff”; esp “Passover: A Black-Jewish Food Musing”; bio in Tablet Magazine 3/28 Matzoh Ball Gumbo: “‘Too Jewish’ In Atlanta: Negotiating Food and Fear in the New South”; infographic lab 3/30 Challah at Chabad: meet at Chabad House, Decatur Road postpone: MBG: “Colonial Roots of Southern Jewish Cuisine: Savannah and Charleston”; digital mapping lab 4/4 recap, project sharing, rhetorical keyterms; postpone: MBG: “Matzoh Ball Ya Ya: The Creole and Jewish Worlds of New Orleans and Natchez”; digital mapping lab postpone. 4/6 update: meet at General Muir, at Emory Point, to discuss the Savannah and Charleston chapter of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: chapter 2. MGB: “Feeding the Jewish Soul in the Delta Diaspora”; subtitling lab 4/11 Accessible web-design lab 4/13 4/14 William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum (meet DUC 1pm or arrange carpool in advance) 4/18 Editing, Redesigns, Revisions, Reflections, Links 4/20 Editing, Redesigns, Revisions, Reflections, Links |
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