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Dias Gomes expresses, in his play O Santo Inquérito, how the prohibited books have influenced the behavior of the legendary Branca Dias. The main reason that she is condemned to the bonfire is due to the fact of her assiduity to reading. This heroin represents the curious subject, questioner, who uses the knowledge as a strategy to legitimate the power.

This paper aims mainly to analyze Castro Alves’ poem “Ahasverus e o gênio”, specially observing the legend of the Wandering Jew and the Jewish question, which appears in some poems by this romantic author. We will also consider some prior studies that recapture the romantic questions related to the genius poet, the poet of a people.

Diários públicos, 2001, by Leila Danziger, is a work built from a collection of printed newspapers composed by series of works (“Para Irineu Funes”, “Resistir-por-ninguém-e-por-nada”, “Para-ninguém-e-nada-estar”, “O que desaparece, o que resiste”, among others). In these works, the artist seizes literary excertain ones, like verses of Paul Celan, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Ana Cristina Caesar and Cecília Meireles, for example, rewriting them on pages of news that were scraped.

This article intends to discuss with artistic and literary production of the visual artist Leila Danziger. We selected as to both axes from which to undertake this dialogue: precariousness, silence, profanation, lalangue, and the proper name.

This article has as its main objective to analyze the book O ciclo das águas, by the author Moacyr Scliar, searching, through the story of Esther, highlighting the process of prostitution of Jewish girls, in particular the “Polish”, brought from Europe to Brazil. As prostitution involving Jews was a taboo in the Jewish community in Brazil, Moacyr Scliar pioneered the approach this theme through fiction. What must be considered is that the novel, as narrative genre, tackles about the reality of those Jewish women in Brazil, giving verisimilitude, but not limiting the description of reality (attribute of historiography), but their representation. Thus, through names like Kushnir (1996), Scliar (1985; 2002), and other authors, we intend to investigate the relation between “the sacred and the profane” that permeates the figure of the Jewish woman who becomes a prostitute, within a context in which prostitution and Judaism are intertwined.

El presente artículo analiza una de las cartas escritas por Olga Benário en el período que estuvo en la prisión femenina de Berlín, lugar donde nasció su hija, Anita Leocádia, y donde permaneció hasta que la niña le fue sacada y entregada a la abuela paterna. Aunque parezca una sencilla epístola, percibimos que las líneas escritas por Olga están cargadas de representaciones y significados, así, analizamos no sólo sus aspectos en cuanto género, pero también, en cuanto espacio biográfico con base en teóricos como: Peter Gay, Leonor Arfuch y Silviano Santiago. Integramos a este análisis las reflexiones de Walter Benjamin con relación a los conceptos de vivencia y de experiencia, analizando la forma como estos pueden ser percibidos en la epístola de Olga.

In the thirties and forties of the 20thcentury many Jewish painters, sculptors, graphic artists, illustrators and engravers fled the Nazi persecutions to Brazil. The majority of them was influenced by the multiple modernistic repertories e movements in Europe. By their activity and works they contributed to consolidate the modern art in Brazilian art which was dominated by the academic art until then. The refugees Agi Straus, Alice Brill, Gisela Eichbaum e Eleonore Koch who came to Brazil as adolescent or child made successful careers as artists. In their works of art they combined elements of their German-Jewish cultural heritage as well as aspects of the Brazilian formation and experience.

Nem tudo se perdeu, meu pai, ainda...  

José.

Sarai.

Quatro poemas crepusculares

Brumas

Resenha a: KUCINSKI, Bernardo. Alice: não mais que de repente. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 2014. 192p.

Resenha a: AJZENBERG, Bernardo. Minha vida sem banho. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 2014. 189p.

Resenha a: SORJ, Bernardo. Vai embora da casa de teus pais. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2012. 222p.

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The Hebrew aljamias are the result of the mixture of the Latin writing system and the Hebrew writing system, along with the creation of new rules intrinsic to this writing. Our aim is to understand this hybrid writing system more clearly, taking as reference point the 15th Jewish manuscript De magia (Ms. Laud Or. 282, Bodleian Library). To this end, the system of arrival –the hebrew aljamia –is compared with the starting systems –Hebrew and Portuguese. We can conclude that Latin is the most redundant and the most complete, but the least economical writing systems. On the other hand, Hebrew is the least redundant, the most economical and the least complete among them, situating the aljamia at an intermediate point between the two extremes. This system, resulting from so many changes and accommodations of rules, allows a satisfactory readability of the text and is an efficient tool for communication between its users.

Aby Warburg was a name that evoked more than a man, a library: the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (KBW) in Hamburg. The article discusses the “unnamed science” created by Warburg to sort his personal collection that became public, reflecting his enthusiasm for collective memory. The library also hosts the Atlas Mnemosyne (1924-1929), which is made up of blades portraying an alternative version of the History of Art, a collection of organized images, in the same way as the library, by criteria of “good neighbor”. The KBW–which survived two wars, a move to London, the mental breakdowns of its creator –became eternal after its opening to the public in 1926 and still reverberates through the numerous works of contemporary art.

The current article is an analysis of the novel Ver: Amo rby David Grossman, trying to highlight some references to encyclopedias, lists, collections and entries; mentioning the catastrophe that happened in the Second World War. It is said that Ver: Amor is an encyclopedic novel and the reflection made by the author refers to the experiences of reality. There is a tentative of explaining what was Shoah by its writing. Thus, the essay seeks for interpreting this tentative and what it is supposed to represent based on a variety of theories. Considering this novel, it is intended to research the clues that were given by the author trying to review and reflect about the World before, during, and mainly after the horrible scenery left by the Shoah

This paper studies the formation of the Jewish Brigade, a military formation under the command of the British Army in World War II since November 1944. The Brigade was composed exclusively by Jewish militaries from Palestine and took a part in the occupation of Italy. Also, members of the Brigade acted in the rescue of Jewish survivors in Europe, sending them secretly to Palestine. At the end of the war groups of avengers were formed inside the Jewish Brigade, with the aim to find and execute Nazis guilty for war crimes. The existence of the Jewish Brigade and the fact that some of its members had participated in avengers groups have similarities with the movie “Inglorious Basterds”, from the director Quentin Tarantino. The movie does not relate a historical truth, but there was a group of real “inglorious basterds”, jews that fought for their dignity, searching for vengeance.