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This paper aims to investigate the relations between Judaism, medicine and literature in the novel A majestade do Xingu by Jewish Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar (1937-2011), work published in 1997. These relations will be specified by means of the Jewish concept about the relationship between patient and physician within the Jewish medical ethics (an aspect from the Jewish ethics). In the relationship between patient and physician, in A majestade do Xingu, the literary use of the clinical anamnesis – that causes an “illness narrative”(KLEIMAN, 1988) –occurs to discuss the dehumanization that unfortunately happens in this relationship, yet. Besides, this literary use occurs to give a new meaning to the concepts of sickness and patient in the medical records to create a deep relationship with the human nature of the patient in his totality, not only with the ill part of this nature. According to Arthur Kleiman, this new meaning reveals the care of the sick human being more as sick person than patient. This concept dialogues with reflections of Maimonides about the relationship between patient and physician, because for Rambam the medicine is health not only of the body, but also of the soul. In the novel A majestade do Xingu, in Jewish medical ethics terms, the patient –telling his sickness to a physician – and Noel Nutels caring of the Indians disclose for reader the literature as place where ethics, aesthetics, health and sickness fuse. This symbiosis occurs in this novel to reflect about the dignity of the human life in the context of the health and the sickness with the Jewish contribution by means of the ethical imperative legated by the Torah and interpreted by the Talmudic sages in Pirkey Avoth, for example

Machado de Assis’ poetry remains little studied and comprehended in academic researches. Among the sets of ten poems which pay homage to important canonical writers, in the book Ocidentais, there are two which interest us more especially to our remarks: “Antônio José” and “Espinosa”. Machado de Assis dialogue with the works by these two writers, also marking that both Antônio José and Espinosa belonged to New Christian families and were persecuted by religious intolerance.

Biblical themes are present in several texts by Jewish-Gaucho-Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar (1937-2011) from the very beginning of his literary career. However, these themes will be the core of his narratives only in his last published novels. In this paper I will discuss only the novel A mulher que escreveu a Bíblia (1999), although the group of romances to witch I have given the title of ‘Scliarian Biblical Triplet’ is composed of two more novels, namely Os vendilhões do Templo (2006) and Manual da paixão solitária (2009).The three novels have as a common trait the fact of being constructed by means of re-creation, re-invention and fictionalization of the world, episodes and characters of the Hebrew Bible through a contemporary glance. Due to this procedure, the reader finds in the text the big issues of our present days, such as gender relations, the roles played in the bosom of the families, religious intolerance, power and corruption, the plural and erratic dimension of History, all of this mixed and linked to the point of view that supposedly people living in the time of the facts narrated in the Bible and the witnesses of its books’ canonization should have had. Having this mix of glances and narrative procedures done, Scliar constructs universal reaching narratives that, nevertheless, reveal a lot of Brazilian culture and society.

This paper tries to analyze Moacyr Scliar's narrative techniques in O centauro no jardim [The centaur in the garden], from the perspective of Mikhail Bakhitin's and Donna Harawavs concepts of hybridism. It also discusses the role and limits of theoretical knowledge as a cultural practice.

The novel O centauro no jardim by Moacyr Scliar and the scene of circumcision of a Jewish boy in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, points to an important reflection on the relationship between the body, language and tradition in contemporary times. This article proposes an analysis of these relationships and their reverberation in the Literature.

The purpose of this article is to reflect on the similarities and differences between Moacyr Scliar and Milton Hatoum regarding the inclusion of global and regional elements in their literary work. For this, we needs to do an examination, albeit brief and selective, of certain works that best illustrate their respective holdings in terms of spatiality or locality in their plots.

In this article, the writer Richard Zimler, author by Os anagramas de Varsóvia, recounts his visit to the hometown of his grandparents in Poland. The impact to see the grandparent's house turns out to lead a series of reflections on the Shoah, anti-Semitism and the disappearance of the Jews and their consequences in the country.

The article aims to be a didactic reflection on curriculum integration of Jewish presence in medieval Christian with the intent of generating reflections on students over the ancient anti-Jewish prejudice. Inserts an analysis of the Jewish presence in the West and suggests medieval Christian thematic clippings and proposed use of historical works with the help of cinematographic features.

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Love´s voice: 3 Kabbalistic Haiku

Resenha a: SCLIAR, Moacyr. Os leopardos de Kafka. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2000. 128p.

Resenha a: ALEIKHEM, Scholem. Tévye, o leiteiro. Trad. Jacó Guinsburg. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2012. 272p.

Resenha a: GROSSMAN, David. Fora do tempo. Trad. Paulo Geiger. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2012. 173p.

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This article looks at the history of family Rodrigues Antunes. This family was one of the most charged during the visitation, mainly on account of its matriarch, Ana Rodrigues, a native of the region of Serra da Estrela, in Portugal, considered the first woman condemned to the stake of Portuguese America, where resident living for more than three decades.

Ilse Weber (1903-1944) tuvo un papel de enorme envergadura en Theresienstadt. Su reputación como poeta y dramaturga del mundo infantil le facilitó, sin duda, una rápida integración en el amplio círculo de artistas e intelectuales checos que malvivían como podían en aquel “gueto especial”. Convertida en enfermera jefe de la comunidad judía del campo, durante los casi dos años que duró su residencia en el infierno utilizó la literatura como una herramienta terapéutica más orientada, casi obsesivamente, a ofrecer un poco de sentido a las vidas humilladas de quienes se hacinaban en la miserable enfermería que tenía a su cargo y, de un modo muy especial, a paliar con una guitarra en la mano, el profundo desconcierto emocional de los niños que aguardaban en Theresienstadt el turno de su muerte.

Being considered as one of the most important writers in the field of North-American Jewish literature, Cynthia Ozickis constantly aiming to achieve universality in her books, even when it comes to more specific themes, such as the Shoah (Jewish Holocaust). In The Shawl (1989), the genocide is represented by complex characters and confused memories, which produce a narrative full of symbols and intriguing images. The objective of the current paper is to pass by Ozick’s work, as well as to focus on the study of The Shawl and its contribution to the analysis of the Shoah.

The objective of this study is to examine briefly in Clarice Lispector’s work A hora da estrela (1977) how the ethos of the speaker (Rodrigo S.M.) and of the writer (Clarice Lispector) and a certain kind of ethos of rabbinic and Judeo-Christian cultures’ tradition are exchanged, as evidenced by intertexts present in the work’s narrative. We also briefly discuss how the secularization of some of these ontological-existential and religious speeches occurs in the work. To this end, we’ll base upon concepts of discourse analysis (DA), developed by Dominique Maingueneau, especially the foundations of ethos (enunciative scene, composed by comprehensive, generic, scenographic scenes and also by statements and guarantors).The research is descriptive (documentary), through the qualitative-interpretative method. As result, one is able to certify that the pre-discursive and discursive ethos of guarantors Rodrigo S.M. and Clarice Lispector and the rabbinic and Judeo-Christian ethos in the work’s scripture are built by exchanged intersections of discourses and intertexts, from the perspective of an intricate game language and linguistic and literary strategies that emphasize human communication as a complex process of linguistic, aesthetic and cultural-ideological variables, seized in an enunciative-discursive situation.

This article discusses the figure and the representation of the woman in the Bible. They are crowd in the biblical account. Since Eve, each page there is a woman's face. Virtuous or sinner, selfless or soulless, suit or tyrannical, he raises, as once today, living a printing temperament, a gesture, a feeling. The subtle game of psychology and female motivations, its relations with the masculine world, continues pounding on the heroines of the Scriptures.