Abstract
This course introduces students to major texts in contemporary Israeli literature. As a survey course, we read a variety of short texts: novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and film, examining how they speak to current concerns about social justice, technology, modernization and equality; exploring social, political, economical, and cultural changes that have occurred during the past 70 years; and, reflecting on literature as a critical space in which to encounter the ‘Other’ on the connective strand of our shared human vulnerability. This class satisfies part of Drury’s Humanities requirement. We will consider the role of literature as a part of the humanities and why humanistic inquiry fits into living a good life.