RCAAP Repository

The Tannaitic source text below, taken from tractate Eruvin of the Bavli (41b), features chaining as a prominent component – a formal-stylistic element which establishes a sequencing connection between one part of a narrative to the next among three parts of the same text. Where chaining is operative, each part of the text sequence appears in the same style and resembles the others in form.    

O Livro dos livros

O maior best-seller da história

Bisturi

Semiologia

Divagações

Receita de felicidade

Um mundo melhor

Resenha a: BLANK, Paulo. Mentch, a arte de criar um homem. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras, 2016. 216p.

Resenha a: FREIDENSON, Marília Levi (Org.). Carta de chamada: relatos da imigração judaica em São Paulo de 1932 até 1942. São Paulo: Annablume, 2014. 407p.

Marx

A prevalent Talmudic theory claims that both animals and plants can change, whether in the development process of the embryo or throughout the life of the organism. The current article analyzes the concept of the transformation. It shows that this view was rooted in Greco-Roman literature and the Jewish sages derived their outlook from the classical world with which they were familiar.

Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk wrote a blog in which cuts, comings and goings interrupt the continuity of the speech, creating parts that do not lead to a sense of continuity. Despite the difficult and varied focus and the irregular rhythm, the obstinacy of a project allied with the indestructible character of a desire unfolds before the reader. The author reports on aspects of his history in this network, through privileged events, after learning of a devastating cancer that was leading him to death.

This article aims at investigating how the relation between literature and science in Il sistema periodico by the Italian Jewish chemist and writer Primo Levi. In addition to being an overview of chemical elements, using Mendeleevs ́s periodic table template as a frame, this book is also a short story collection of the writer's life, an intimate and seemingly unpretentious encyclopedia. However, unlike the aspiration that moved many of the encyclopedists, Levi ́s narrator does not intend to reach the totality; the entry, so explored in his work, just confirms the lacunar and residual character of his memories.

The pogrom in Baghdad in June 1941 serves as a backdrop for writer Ezra Tsabani who, in his first novel, confronts the reader with the drama experienced by the Jewish community in Iraq. His narrative takes place in the colorful streets of Baghdad's markets, where Juliet lives, the first-born of the Dashti family, a family that lives in the old Jewish quarter of the 1940s. Juliet, the young embroiderer, works hard to support the members of her family who live a reality of poverty and oppression in a city where there is a tense climate of suspicion between Muslims and Jews. The events unleashed by Farhud opened wounds that encouraged Jews to leave Iraq for Israel.

The article intends to discuss how Leila Danziger's newest book of poems, Ano novo, elaborates a delicate meditation on the symbolic rites of heritage and mourning. Writing for the author is understood as an activity of double nature: it is part of the effort to elaborate past losses and traumas, as well as a way of imagining the future and continuity of family and community legacies, for personal responsibilities or an injuction of jewish identity.

This article analyzes the Jewish history that has its origin marked by an irreversible act of rupture determining its identity profile. Abraham, the founding patriarch, detaches himself from his past to follow the “call” that establishes a new relationship “man / divinity” having as normative principle the existence of a single god in counterpart to the polytheistic cult of his paternal house. Two aspects marked the foundation of the new becoming: the principle of monotheism and the inaugural wandering in search of the divinely promised land: Canaan.

Given the problematic field of autobiographical writing and their interlacement between film language, testimony, memory, subjectivity’s critique, and the confessional and testimonial traits of our culture, this article has as its main perspective the investigation of the political subjectification and enunciation modes expressed by the cinematographic diaries of David Perlov, Brazilian-Israeli filmmaker. In these diaries, between 1970 and 2000, errancy, trauma, exile and mourning are figures of a subjective enunciation and narrative in constant movement, for which the displacement, not only geographic, makes the transition from identity to otherness, from trauma to mourning, from the private sphere to politics.

Philip Roth is a Jewish American writer whose fiction has always been about Jewish identity and the conflicts that it involves. In Operation Shylock he treats this subjetct through a supposedly autobiographical structure that incorporates elements that exist outsider the text, such as newspaper’s interviews and columns. The present article analyses the structure chosen and how it’s used by the author to write about the conflicts and paradoxes of contemporary Jewish identity.

This paper article discusses the poetic transcriation of Ecclesiastes by the Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos. The author published Qohélet/O-Que-Sabe Eclesiastes: poema sapiencial in 1991. The book is relevant for the timeline of Bible translations in Brazil for respecting the Hebrew prosody (stress and pace) and typography. It is indeed a product of creative translation, by means of anthropophagy as a cultural mechanism and recreation, an act of critical devouring of the other and assimilation of the foreign, a project for Brazilian literature enrichment. In addition, this paper will compare the transcriation of Haroldo de Campos to the Bible translation of João Ferreira de Almeida, the bestselling book in the country.