Dreams & Nightmares in Jewish Lit

In this course we will examine the way in which Jewish writers transmute their worries and aspirations into a literature of nightmares and dreams, reading about characters who find that the real world is just one step removed from the imagined. Where do these nightmares and dreams come from? From religious or cultural history? From personal or familial struggles? What purpose do they serve? How do they make us feel when we read about them?