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This article presents the work of Diane Arbus, an important American photographer of Jewish origin who produced her work in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Influenced by the work of Lisette Model, another photographer of Jewish origin, Arbus became one of the first photographers interested in reminding us that the weird/grotesque is very close to us and it is part of our reality. The work that made her famous is characterized by the exhibition of what are considered prohibited by the moral laws of society and must remain hidden because its display could compromise the illusion of an equal, smooth and perfect society.

En la novela O último dos justos, que narra la saga de una familia judía desde la Edad Media hasta Auschwitz, los escenarios se presentan como um rico panorama de la vida de los judíos, especialmente del judaísmo jasídico del siglo. 19y sus pueblos dispersos por toda la Pale y de los años sombríos que precedieron a la Shoah en los principales centros urbanos de Europa, especialmente en Berlín y París.

This article aims to approach the study to the understanding Zecharias Sitchin, dating and historical and cultural contextualization of the patriarch Abraham.

This article will examine the theme of Zionism often appears in the Chronicles of the journalist and writer Sayed Kashua. In a chronicle entitled “quiet”, I would be that chronicler interviewed about his new novel when surprised and asked about the book the Jewish State, Theodor Herzl, published that same day in the year 1896.

This paper aims mainly to analyze the poem “A incômoda companhia do Judeu Errante”, from the book of poetic memories entitled Boitempo, by the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Our comments will pass by questions as the myth of the Wandering Jew in the popular imaginary, and also the presence of New Christians, since the XIX Century, in the region of Minas Gerais.

This article compares daily events in Jerusalem, such as bombing, earthquake and snow, to the literary accounts of the city, trying to inquiry, by means of this contrast, its importance to the ethnic and national feelings of pertaining in modern Israel.

This article will examine the immigration memory present in the postcards of the collection of the Jewish Museum of São Paulo. From Europe to Brazil and vice versa, postcards in Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, German, ladino, Russian, or any other language used by Jews often crossed the Atlantic. The few that are preserved are sometimes valuable historical documents of culture left behind, the new culture adopted, sharp feelings due to the distance and the impossibility of return to place of origin and to everything which existed in that universe, the difficulties in adapt to new conditions of life, longing and hope for new opportunities.

This study examines the discourse produced, under the effects of supernatural inspiration, by the visionary characters in the narrative of Moacyr Scliar. The short story “Os profetas de Banjamim Bok” and the novel A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes offer diverse manifestations of inspired speech, mixing the conventions of prophetic and apocalyptic literature with elements derived from other eras and cultures. In the ingenious novel A mulher que escreveu a Bíblia, one finds a fusion of the traditional belief in revealed writing with some concepts typical of late twentieth-century feminism, centering on woman, her body, and her writing.

The notion of border, seen as a fixed and motionless limit in the discourse of post-modernity, is giving way to that of itinerate spaces in which transitional, fluid and wandering identity relations stand out, marked by the plurality of cultural crossings. Based on the notion of deterritorialization/reterritorialization conceived by Gilles Deleuze and reassessed by Néstor García Canclini, this article analyzes the different stages of this process in the novel A guerra noBom Fim (1972), by Moacyr Scliar.

Cansaço de muitas paredes.

Babel Power Plaza.

D'eus fez a mulher.

Grandes festas.

No quintal de minha infância.

Resenha a KRAUSZ, Luís Sérgio. Deserto. São Paulo Benvirá, 2013. 152p.

Resenha a MISHANI, D. A. The Missing File. Trans. Steven Cohen. New York: HarperCollins, 2013. 289p. Publicado originalmente como Tik Needar em Israel por Keter Brooks em 2011.

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The universe of bestiaries, fantastic and crime fictions (as a example, in authors like Franz Kafka and Patricia Highsmith) with its formulaic or original variations and interpolations (complex, seemingly endless),offered a narrative possibility within the framework of hybrid (between the descriptions and the conceptions, all evoked by the mimetical structure of narration). Villem Flusser and Louis Bec, in the end of the twentieth century, recovering something of the structure of the medieval bestiary and fantastic fiction composition in the Vampyroteuthis infernalis.