HEBREW LANGUAGE 2

The course is one of the core seminars of the second year of the BA degree Licsaam and aims at giving students elementary tools in modern Hebrew (CEFR levels A2-B1), consolidating the knowledge of the language and basing upon what students did in the first year of study.
Its objective is the development of the linguistic skills with special emphasis on the main morphological and syntactical structures of modern Hebrew, and their written and oral application. Additionally, students will begin to familiarise with modern Hebrew literature from a linguistic and historical point of view, enabling him/her to further continue in the study of the subject in the future and more generally to contextualise it in the history of modern Middle Eastern languages and literatures.

1. Knowledge and comprehension: ● Knowing modern Hebrew at elementary level and understanding texts in this language; ● Knowing various characteristics of modern Hebrew and understanding their interaction.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and comprehension: ● Being able to correctly utilize Hebrew in some of the processes of application and communication basing on the knowledge acquired; ● Being able to operate a linguistic and grammar analysis of different aspects of modern Hebrew; ● Being able to apply linguistic skills in order to analyze simple textual typologies.
3. Judgement ability: ● Being able to formulate hypothesis, developing also a critical approach to the evaluation of alternatives.
4. Communication skills: ● Being able to communicate in basic fields of daily life, and not only, in modern Hebrew; ● Interacting with the lecturer and the other students respectfully.
5. Learning abilities: ● Being able to take notes and share them; ● Consulting critically the reference texts and the bibliography.

At the end of the course, students will acquire a good knowledge of modern Hebrew both in the written and oral dimension (CEFR levels A2-B1).
Additionally, they will be able to analyze simple (literary) texts, contextualizing them from a historical and cultural point of view.

The course is destined to students who already attended the first-year classes of Hebrew Language.

MODERN HEBREW AND ITS LITERATURE: FROM THE HASKALAH TO 1948
The course aims at consolidating the notions of modern Hebrew morphology and syntax, on the one hand strengthening the written and oral skills of students and on the other by introducing the history of modern Hebrew literature - with reference to the period that foes from the early nineteenth century to 1948 - and the translation of selected texts by some of the early modern Hebrew authors (Avraham Mapu, 'Ahavat Tziyon; Hayyim Nahman Bialik, selection of poems and texts; Rahel Ha-meshoreret, selection of poems; Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Tmol Shilshom).
The course includes a master-class that will introduce the main Jewish holidays and rites of passage.

Students are asked to attend throughout the entire academic year the weekly classes of modern Hebrew with the language instructor Tsipora Baran.

LANGUAGE
- Lewis Glinert, Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar (Londra: Routledge, 2005), passim.
- Edna Coffin e Shmuel Bolozky, A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), passim.
- Hebrew literary texts available in Moodle.

LITERATURE
- Mendele Moicher Sfarim, I viaggi di Beniamino Terzo (Genova: Marietti, 1983).
- Sholem Aleichem, Storie di uomini e animali (Milano: Adelphi, 2007).
- Hayim Nahman Bialik, Ła tromba e altri racconti (Firenze: Giuntina, 2003)
- Aharon Reuveni, In principio confusione e paura (Torino: Einaudi, 2018).
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon, La leggenda dello scriba e altri racconti (Milano: Adelphi, 2009).
- S. Yizhar, Convoglio di mezzanotte (Roma: Elliott, 2013).
- Carosello di narratori israeliani (Aldo Martello: Milano, 1958), SOLO I TESTI DI: B. Tammuz; Y. Shenhar; A. Barash; M. Shamir e Y. Burla (PDF nel Moodle).
- Poeti d'Israele: antologia della poesia ebraica moderna da Bialik a Carni (Padova: Rebellato, 1969), SOLO LE PAGINE: 21-58; 103-110; 133-144; 181-197; 221-226 (PDF nel Moodle).

HISTORY OF LITERATURE
- Mireille Hadas-Lebel, Storia della lingua ebraica (Firenze: Giuntina, 1994), 97-133.
- Gershon Shaked, Narrativa ebraica moderna (Milano: Terra Santa, 2011), passim.
- Shachar Pinsker, "Hebrew literature", in The Cambridge History of Judaism: the Modern World, 1815-2000, a cura di Mitchell B. Hart (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 755-777.

recommended readings:
- Giuliano Tamani, “Il giudaismo nell’età moderna e contemporanea”, in Ebraismo, a cura di Giovanni Filoramo (Roma: Laterza, 2007), 201-220.
- Ernest Guggenheim, L’ebraismo nella vita quotidiana (Firenze: Giuntina, 1994).
- Anna Foa, Diaspora: storia degli ebrei nel Novecento (Roma: Laterza, 2009), 3-38; 73-93 e 103-129.

MOVIE
- Thorold Dickinson, Giv'ah 24 'einah 'onah (1955)

During the course, students are asked to do translation and grammar exercises, both in class and at home. Students are also asked to read all the Hebrew literary texts (see the bibliography).

The final mark will be the average of:
1. a partial written exam ("prova parziale") with: translation of excerpts from the Hebrew texts studied in class, grammar exercises, one question on the history of Hebrew literature.
2. a final written exam of Hebrew to Italian translation.
3. a final oral exam with the CEL.

Lectures; class discussions; videos; Moodle.

Italian

Students unable to attend should contact the lecturer at the beginning of the semester.

written and oral

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