Adult Education Class: Loss, Grief and Transformation: Insights from Modern Literature and Jewish Tradition
We will be reading and discussing Emily Dickinson, The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (suggested translation– Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) , selections from Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Abraham Joshua Heschel, “Death as Homecoming,” and other Jewish texts.
(Note: There are a few copies of the suggested translation of The Death of Ivan Ilyich in the Vineyard libraries.)
Syllabus and Reading Material
Class 1. Grief, Loss, and Transformation
Class 1. Poetry of Love & Loss
Class 2. Proust – Mourning & Memory
Class 3. Tolstoy – “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” (see syllabus, audiobook on YouTube)
Class 4. Heschel – “Death as Homecoming”
Class Schedule:
Sundays 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Zoom only
- November 12
- November 19
- December 3
- December 10
