TOMORROW: American Jewish Literature 101
Bernard Malamud, Chaim Potok, Neil Simon, Anzia Yezierska, and more
Tomorrow Monday at Noon EDT Jewish Culture 101 will offer “American Jewish Literature 101,” a brisk sampler of the literary corpus of American Jews, including writers such as Neil Simon, Bernard Malamud, Chaim Potok, and Anzia Yezierska. No pre-class reading is required. Sign up: tinyurl.com/Benkof101.
The upcoming schedule for the entire course, with links, is below. All classes are at Noon EDT:
Monday, July 27 American Jewish Literature 101
Thursday, July 30 “If You Could See Cabaret Through My Eyes”
Monday, August 3 Norman Lear’s sitcoms (All in the Family, Good Times, The Jeffersons)
Thursday, August 6 Sondheim’s lyrics
Monday, August 10 MAD Magazine
Thursday, August 13 SNL’s Jews
Monday, August 17 Mel Brooks 101
Thursday, August 20 Visual Artists
Monday, August 24 Funny Women
Thursday, August 27 Women Photographers
Monday, August 31 Humorists
Two more things:
• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: tinyurl.com/BenkofChannel. You’ll find dozens of American Jewish culture videos, including a five-minute video on Allen Ginsberg’s landmark poem “Howl,” and a 45-minute lecture on the “three Jews” of Philip Roth.
• I’m booking Zoom talks for individual organizations, and eventually in-person classes. Here’s a demonstration of my in-person teaching and this one-minute intro shows how Jewish Culture 101 works.