Growing-Up Stories:
Coming of Age in the Media and in Literature
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Growing-Up Stories visits the important precipice between adolescence and adulthood, a time of discovery and transformation. Based mostly on novels and plays by important modern Jewish writers like Herman Wouk and Chaim Potok, the films explore the struggle of young Jews to establish their own identity and the ways in which traditional values are interpreted by succeeding generations.

Introduction

Session 1: Reinventing Ourselves
Marjorie Morningstar

Session 2: Becoming "A Somebody"
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Session 3: Fathers, Sons, and Friendship
The Chosen

Session 4: Out of Brooklyn
Biloxi Blues

Session 5: Between Generations
Sweet Lorraine

Session 6: Wrap-Up

Course Leader Notes