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The concentration camp experience mark the Primo Levi literature with a remarkable spot at the literary use of memory and witness of the Inhuman Horror: the process of dehumanization and extermination of the jews during the Holocaust. But there is another literature cultivated by Levi: fantastic and allegorical, with some elements and reasons of science fiction. Are these two literatures – different in tone and theme – really far or some twists can approach both? This is a central question of our essays.

This text intends to pass for the readings made on the text of Zechariah prophet. There is no intention to make an exegetical boarding, but before, only a description of the research of the prophet, so little read in Brazil and Latin America. Its relevance leads to the knowledge of the positions and most innovative the more classic proposals and of the interpretation of this predictive text.

In the novel A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, by Moacyr Scliar, the irony is able to promote the deconstruction of the hierarchy which impedes the linearity and historic conception of progress. This article analyzes how irony would be inherent to the modern concept of genealogy from the idea of "happening" and "scene" by Linda Hutcheon. This concept questions the belief at an absolute origin on the Scliar text.

This article is focused in the genesis of Jewish people that, passing through primary successive historical situations, establish themselves as nation/state. Their destruction and exiles will be analyzed in this article, focusing the Babylonian. The biblical report related to the creation of the world, the Shabat, the deluge and its unfoldings and the named Tower of Babel and its multiplicity of languages, however, have been omitted, to directly deal with the symbol of the divine promise to Abraham. So, this text begins from the statement that the Jewish history, as registered in the Bible, has its beginning marked by an irreversible collapse act that was determinant to the construction of its identity profile.

The Jewish humorous folklore is maybe one of the richest ones. This article exposes its configuration since the bible epic until the contemporaneity, from an overview perspective. Therefore, this text aims for a reflection about the manifestation of this humour in the popular laughter, in the tasteful stories and in the set of anecdotes of the Jewish tradition

This article intends to analyses the tale “O Velho Marx” (“The Old Marx”) by Moacyr Scliar in its humor, irony and critic features. The tale is showed as a fiction of the history in which is revealed, in reality, a critic about some social values. The power is seen here as an element that changes the human behavior promoting the illusion of the superiority among men.

This paper presents a study on the narrative ‘A exposição das rosas’ by István Örkény. We analyze death and issues on its representation. Born in 1912 and dead in 1979, Örkény testified in an intense and intrinsic way the great convulsions that affected Europe in the twentieth century. Far from the pamphlet, his literature has a remarkable feature of irony.In the novel analyzed, Iron Korom, a young and inexperienced director, tries to conduct a documentary on the final hours of three close to death patients, aiming at, in his words, help his contemporary folks to understand death experience. Based on Korom’s project Örkény makes us face a threshold, that is, the representation’s limit.

A village in the Ukraine, Eastern Europe, 1941, is the scene of a film Train de Vie, by Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu. While the script departs from strictly historical data to become more of a fable, Mihaileanu provides a realistic portrayal of Shoah. This is no easy task given the scale of the tragedy that is Shoah and the use of humor to reflect and expose the limits and fragmentation of speech.

Between other renowned books of the recent years, Edna Mazya’s work largely doesn’t directly approach the main events of the II World War in Europe. However, this is the background key of a big part of Romance de família, even when the events that are a part of the plot are developed in Palestine, by the time of the War, or even after it, in Israel or, again, in Europe.

El presente artículo relata la rápida visita de su Majestad el emperador del Brasil Don Pedro II (1825-1891) a un anticuario localizado en la antigua ciudad de Jerusalén. La peregrinación del monarca rumbo a Tierra Santa aconteció en el año 1876, durante su segundo viaje internacional. Al negocio del coleccionador William Moses Shapira. El emperador D. Pedro II sospecha que el dueño del comercio sea un gran oportunista empeñado en ganar dinero falsificando objetos de cerámica. El texto revela también una parte considerable de las excavaciones arqueológicas del siglo19 a la luz de la “cerámica moabita”.

Resenha a: SCLIAR, Moacyr; FINZI, Patrícia; TOKER, Eliahu. (Seleção, organização e edição). Do éden ao divã: humor judaico. São Paulo: Editora Shalom, 1990. 214p.  

Resenha a: SPALDING, Henry D. Enciclopédia do humor judaico: dos tempos bíblicos à era moderna. Trad. Dagoberto Mensch. São Paulo: Editora Sêfer, 1997.  

Resenha a: ROTH, Joseph. Jó: romance de um homem simples. Trad. Laura Barreto. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2008. 200p.

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Critical reading of two short stories, “Berta”, by Aharon Appelfeld, and “A menor mulher do mundo”, by Clarice Lispector. The former, by an author who lives in Israel, the later, by a Jewish immigrant writer who lived in Brazil. Despite the differentiated plots and themes, underlies an ordinary reflexion on the management of the otherness built from a power apparatus.

In this article, I study Eve’s largest discours in The life of Adam and Eve, greek version. At first, I introduce the theme of the change of perspective through a contemporary novel, Jostein Gaarder’ʹs Vita Brevis. Next, I show fastly the text with which I work. Then, I aproach Eve'ʹs discours, observing in what way it is inserted in the narrative. I think about the way in which the change of perspective of Eve’s retelling makes possible the construction of a narrative which mix “to tell” and “to interpret”, like agadic Midrashim.

Analysis of three instances of Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires. The first, a theatre spoken in Yiddish that comes from the contexts of immigration, that has to do with the millenarian life of the Jewish, the memories of the shetl, and the pogroms. The second is the theatre of the experience in the region of Argentina, related to the narrative, already in Yiddish, already in castellano. The third exemplifies the start of the extinction of Yiddish, having spectators with different migratory roots, that won’t understand the Yiddish, with the growing debility of Yiddish in the collectivity, or by effect of assimilation or by the tragic act that Yiddish had developed the huge debility imposed by Nazism, which will eventually lead to the death of the language that, in Argentina and several other places, was most identified with the Jewish.