Pick one question as the essay topic.
1. Spinoza and Maimon were among the first Jews to join the mainstream of the
Western philosophical tradition. Why did they break from traditional
Judaism? What did their careers have in common, and how and why did
they differ?
2. Many authors of classic autobiographies are severely critical of their younger
selves. Is this true of Solomon Maimon? How does he present himself in his
autobiography?
3. Amos Elon’s The Pity of It All offers wonderful portraits of German-Jewish
intellectual from Mendelssohn’s era through the twentieth century. Does he
go beyond portraiture toward a more general explanation of Jewish
intellectual dynamism in the German context? What are some of the
principal elements of such an explanation, given what we have read so far?
4. Compare and contrast any two images of Jewish scholars and/or scholarship
in any two texts we have read this quarter. Do these depictions of traditional
Jewish learning and pedagogy suggest a wider critique of Eastern European
Jewish life?
5. Examine images of women in any two or three texts by our Yiddish writers.
Again, how do the female characters created by these writers illuminate the
strengths and weaknesses of the Eastern European Jewish community during
the nineteenth century?
6. Sholem Aleichem and I.L. Peretz were not only among the founders of a great
literary tradition, but also brilliant social critics. Choose one story by each,
and show how a critique of the Jewish world of their time is embedded in
each of them.
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