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Ahad Haam, literalmente, “uno del pueblo” es el seudónimo de Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg. Fue uno de los más importantes pensadores judíos del pasaje del siglo 19para el siglo 20, además de destacado activista y dirigente político, que influyó notablemente el movimiento sionista, y también jugó un importante papel en el renacimiento de la lengua hebrea. Nacido en Ucrania en la época de la Ilustración judía de Europa del Este, es conocido también como el fundador del sionismo cultural o espiritual.

This article is defined as the analysis of the concept of collection on the novel by Israeli writer David Grossman (2007), See Under: love. We intend to develop a route through the main features of Grossman's novel revolving around an encyclopedic, labyrinthine, metalinguistic, rhizomatic and fragmentary writing. Characteristics, it should be emphasized, typical of a postmodern novel, especially a novel that aims to confront harsh questions about the extermination, death, disaster, but it also points to issues like life, memory, love and survival.

This paper discusses the importance of the philosopher and rabbi Hasdai Crescas in defense of Judaism in the late Middle Ages. Hasdai Crescas defended the Jewish communities against forced conversions to Christianity and wrote works contrary to Christian doctrine and the influence of Aristotelian philosophy in Judaism.

The Shoah in a fictional novel calls into question some of the boundaries between the literary and the fictional. This article analyzes the novel Tudo se ilumina, by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005, checking the use of narrative features, such as list and the enumeration as a strategy for expansion of the fragment of memory.

David Grossman, from the lists and enumerations, especially of names to symbolize the contact with the “other”, let glimpse in Ver: Amor, an attempt to contact with otherness. Although not deconstruct the concept of identity, the writer puts in jeopardy the process of designing a full identity, assigning it a principle that, before being social and historical is, primarily, discursive and fragmentary.

The novel Ver: Amor, 2007 by David Grossman shows a contemporary form of fiction about the Shoah, marked by fragmentation and lacunal narrative writing, which the novel of Grossman demonstrate, paradoxically, an encyclopedic writing, from the setting to of the text entry.

The writings of Levinas are associated with frontier concepts of philosophy and religion as notions of ethics, humanism, alterity, face. To understand the true content of his thought is necessary keep in mind that his philosophy and his religion are inseparable. One of the most important sources of his philosophical writings is his Jewish religious experience. The Lithuanian philosopher will defend the validity and universality of truth transmitted by Judaism. Levinas philosophy takes the truths of their religion that considers universal, shareable and studied from the point of view of reason. This is where the contact occurs between two traditions that are apparently so different: Judaism as a source of truth and phenomenology as a mode of reflection and understanding of reality.

The novel Ver: Amor by David Grossman, is marked by the desire to rebuild the Shoah by fiction. Following a model of encyclopedic writing, the reader is faced with a shaky expression full of noises, but who tries at all costs to fix the multiple. The infant protagonist of Grossman, Momik, lives in this chaotic scenario, wanting to build a house and protect yourself from the tempest that come with the doubts of the past. So, that child-file records everything what's possible and collect fragments of memory.

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Resenha a: GRZYBOWSKI, Adam; GOLDMAN, Luis (ilustração). Bíblia: versão não autorizada: livro I, Gênesis. Rio de Janeiro: Tinta Negra, 2014. 224p. ROANI, Gerson; NASCIMENTO, Lyslei (Org.). Estudos Judaicos: Torá. Rio de Janeiro: Oficina Raquel, 2014. 270p.

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The passing time, the development in structured stages, assured in the human being case, it’s not usually a monster attribute. Perennial image that does not change and that obeys other temporal lineage, incarnation of ancient stereotypes or delusional vision of a threatening continuity, the monster when turned to physical form in the historical process must necessarily abandon its childhood. However, there is some chance for the innovation in this process; in this article, our analysis will be focused in two of these innovative varieties, both readings inspired by the Golem traditional narrative: Golem by Gustav Meyrink and Horia Bonciu “Sarpele cu Ochelari”.

This article , when select Retratos antigos: esboços a serem ampliados, by Elisa Lispector, was aimed to analyze the existence of a fragmented and memorialistic speech, as a construction through family portraits of an autobiography of Elisa and her family. So, the main purpose of this article was to present the story of the Lispector made by forgotten photos in an old album.

The purpose of this article is to reflect on a few examples of how the Brazilian literature has configured the atrocities perpetrated during the Second World War, the Shoah, positioning itself in relation to memory and oblivion.

This article is a reflection on survivors of the Second World War who immigrated from Europe to Brazil, focusing on issues related to culture, identity and gender relations, through research into what women have experienced the Shoah.

The film Everything Is Illuminated (2005), directed by Liev Schreiber and based on the novel up, Everything Is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer, tells the story of a young American Jew who travels to the Ukraine in search of his past. The collection for the protagonist of the film and to the woman he meets in Trachimbrod, survivor of a massacre that destroyed his entire family, is of fundamental importance. Both characters together objects as a way to combat the spread and oblivion, as well as Walter Benjamin argued about the collector. This fight is intrinsically linked to Jewish memory, constantly threatened by totalitarian regimes.

The article discusses in an essay form some elements about contemporary Judaism in the novel Black Box, from the Israeli Amos Oz. The plot reveals political issues during the years of construction of the Israeli nation, focusing mainly on the change of leadership occurred 1977. We see that Amos Oz sticks not only to the political level, but is also showing the questions that guide the affections of the different characters in the plot. There is a resistance due to the large strangeness occurred by proximity. Here, there is in addition to the elements of a psychoanalytic listening, which leads to perception of conflicts between the different characters, also the birth of a thought that involves both the most subjective gesture as the most political, headed by the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida. Resistance inhabits the different lines between the discourse of the State of Israel and the scripture mentioned by Derrida as the file you want to meet, but is always having your chance of deferred reading.

El presente articulo tiene por objetivo rescatar la importancia de la figura del profesor como maestro y guía ideológico en la formación sionista de Israel. Meir Shalev, escritor israelí contemporáneo, regresa a su infancia para recordar algunos de sus profesores, que como adulto lo inspiraron para dar vida a sus personajes de ficción.

This article examines the family life that the Polish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer stages on In My Father’s Court. From the autobiographical perspective, the author narrates cases brought to his father’s judgment in the Beit Din that ran in Warsaw, and reconstructs the life in this city and Bilgoray, where his family moved during the First World War. By means of the analysis of the past brought up by Singer, we intend to explore the life of the Jewish-Polish community in the early years of the twentieth century and seek for contributions that allow us to understand the context in which it was immersed. Singer judges not only his father, his family, himself and the cases brought to the rabbinical court. Throughout the narrative, Singer establishes his own Beit Din: there, the true object of judgment are the first decades of the twentieth century and the network of philosophical, religious, political and scientific influences that permeated Judaism in Eastern Europe in the period before the Shoah.