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Wednesdays, 12:00-1:30pm (EST) July 6, 13, 20, 27; Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24
"O, my Kinneret,
Were you there or
did I only dream?"
- Rachel the Poetess
Course Description :
** This course, taught in Hebrew, is designed for Intermediate and Advanced Hebrew learners.
For hundreds of years the Hebrew language was considered “lashon kodesh”, a holy language only to be used for the purposes of prayer, and not for conversational or literary purposes. Around the end of the 18th century, there was an almost miraculous comeback and the “Sleeping Beauty” woke up again. Thousands of new books are published yearly in Israel and poetry is a significant part of them. In this course, we will read and analyze a selection of poems written by some of the most renowned authors (Bialik, Rachel, Amichai, Leah Goldberg and others). Lyrical poetry expresses, in general, intimate feelings, however, in Hebrew poetry, personal emotions are frequently intertwined with contemporary or historical Jewish themes. Together we will discover through the modern revived language, the echoes of our most important traditional texts.
WEDNESDAYS, 12:00-1:30pm (EST)
Dates: July 6, 13, 20, 27; Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24