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Un punto en el espacio
Un punto en el espacio
Rabi Low
Rabi Low
The multiple Teratology: Robert Bloch and its bestiary
Howard Phillips Lovecraft believed that people to create fantastic works of supernatural terror, should have some "inclination" to dazzle on the irrational, stating that France and its people, for example, would be too rational to do so. The writer cites the Jews on the list of people having a mythology with his golems, dybbuks and other creatures, capable of inspiring the supernatural terror.
From thegolem to the analysand: the analyst is not a baal shem
The unnameable, inexpressible, making brand by letter and by registering in the flesh. In mythology, it is possible to find an illustration of that fact by means of the legend of the golem, recurring theme in literature.
Dibuk: an Author, one theme and one piece
The Dibuk by Sch. An-Ski is one of the biggest hits of Yiddish Theatre and Hebrew, but had a difficult road to reach the scene. This article discusses the context of their production.
The Aleph, Beatriz and the Kabalah in Jorge Luis Borges
The short story “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges evidenced the character of fiction of Hebrew and of Kabbalist of the Argentine writer. He shows the proliferation of reports possible, given the complex and this sign while a reinvention of the metaphor of scripture.
The Hasidism of Martin Buber’s vision
In Histórias do Rabi, 1949, Martin Buber assumes that the stories are counted there are legends created by enthusiastic people who believed have realized certain facts. That is precisely why Buber calls of reality: “the reality of ardent souls, a reality produced in total innocence, with no place for invention or to the whim”.
2008
Pfeffer, Renato Daher, Gabriella
Aviziboa: the Jewish Witch of Torres Vedras in 1492
In the history of the West, particularly in the Middle Age and during the Renaissance, not distinguished magic, spells and natural sciences. Philosophy and Theology, for example, focused his attention separating the “magic” of “popular natural magic;” the latter related to demonic forces.
The Kabbalah and the crossing of evil
Evil is in the creation not as a foreign agent and has entrenched therein; It is part of its innermost essence. The tradition said that the sages of the time of Ezra implorer on that the power of the iétzar hará, the inclination of the man towards evil, outside eliminated forever; and God attended this claim but through a prophet warned: “Be care because if you destroy this, the whole world will be destroyed”.
Literature in the mirror: “Parable of the son and of the Fable”
This article analyzes the short story “Parábola do filho e da fábula” by Samuel Rawet. Adopting the form “parable”, Rawet points to the biblical text as a paradigm of his literary construction, he discusses literature itself, questioning the possibility and effectiveness of its use for the transmission of moral lessons, focuses on the instrumentalization of literature, the usual trend of putting it at the service of transmitting a particular set of moral lessons and reveals the relationship between ethics and literature
Golem in the Bragança Dynasty: O último suspiro do mouro by Salman Rushdie
The Hebrew legend of the Golem appears in an episode of the novel O último suspiro do mouro, by Indian author Salman Rushdie and acquires new contours. The postmodern novels use and abuse of the conventions of elite and popular literature and intertextual resources. This type of feature, common in Rushdie’s novels, acts to address and to subvert the fragmentation of the speeches historiographic metafiction and recognize in a complex network of discourse: “official” cultures and popular.
The literature of Qumran, the ages of the world and the world’s monarchies: the cosmic tree theme
The mythical theme of the cosmic tree on which rests the world merges with the theme of the world’s monarchies; by itself this would suffice to point an influence, but also a very close relationship between Iranian and Jewish doctrines. It should be noted, however, that there is not a single tree with sparse branches, but several trees; the imagination of visionary gave a significant jump in this respect.
Resistance and renewal: writing and food in Cíntia Moscovich
Analysis of the short story “The hunger and desire to eat” by Cíntia Moscovich. The sacred character of food and meals, your moment of kinship and redemption of a nostalgic time of coexistence is, in the plot, watermarked by irony, which deconstructs sayings rooted and tradition.
2008
Silva, Vivien Gonzaga e Santos, Julia Nascimento dos
3 variaciones sobre el silencio
3 variaciones sobre el silencio
Por detrás da cortina
Resenha a: BIALIK, Haim Nahman. A trombeta envergonhada. Organização, tradução e notas de Eliana Langer e Nancy Rozenchan. São Paulo: Globo, 2007. 373p.
Demônios no shtetl
Resenha a: SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. 47 contos. Trad. José Rubens Siqueira. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2004. 719p.
2008
Menezes, Filipe Amaral Rocha de
Lilith, Golem e outros seres imaginários
Resenha a: LEVI, Primo. 71 contos de Primo Levi. Trad. Maurício Santana Dias. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2005. 523p.
2008
Assis, Luciara Lourdes Silva de
As narrativas pioneiras do Holocausto
As narrativas pioneiras do Holocausto
La corona
La corona
Treinta y dos son los senderos
Treinta y dos son los senderos