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Resenha a: ASBRINK, Elisabeth. 1947. Estocolmo: Editora Natur & Kultur, 2016. 298 p.

Resenha a: KUCINSKI, Bernardo. K – Relato de uma busca. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2016. 176 p.

This article deals with the main works of Annie Leibovitz, a contemporary photographer of Jewish origin, famous for the aesthetic and rhetorical quality of her portraits. Although it is not adequately valued by much of the specialized critic, due to its link with the market, its images, as will be seen in this text, are complex and of great importance for the history of photography. In this reflection on her work was used a methodology of analysis of semiotic basis, combined with the concepts developed by Aby Warburg on the survival of the images.

Fulgor do nada

Jerusalém

Abraão e Esaú

Resenha a: CARVALHO, Ana Cecília. Os mesmos e os outros: o livro dos ex. Belo Horizonte: Quixote-Do Editoras Associadas, 2017. 191 p.

The current study discusses the interpretation of the Midrash to Ecclesiastes 10:20: "for a bird of the heaven will carry your voice". The Midrash stresses that Ecclesiastes refers to receiving unknown information from birds. The foundation of the Midrash is that in ancient times people believed that hidden information is transferred from birds to humans through observation of their flight or listening to their cries.

Abraão X Nimrod

Classe

Resenha a: JEHA, Julio; NASCIMENTO, Lyslei (Org.). Estudos judaicos: crimes, pecados, monstruosidades.  São Paulo: Humanitas, 2017. 168 p.

El artículo se dedica a la novela A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes de Moacyr Scliar (1983), que se lee como una reconstrucción de hechos históricos que parten de una saga familiar. En esta obra, Scliar se centra en el movimiento inmigratorio de los sefardíes desde el descubrimiento de Brasil hacia 1500. El presente texto se intentará mostrar que la novela construye una memoria judía en la que confluyen recuerdos de la historia de los inmigrantes judíos y el desarrollo político y económico de Brasil. (Español (España).).

Língua portuguesa

Resenha a: VALENTE, Luize. Sonata em Auschwitz. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2017. 376 p.

The rabbinical Judaism develops itself between letters among texts, which transcend printed pictures. The colors of the Hebrew Scriptures in the Jewish literature reflect concepts over the visual imagination. This article aim is to show some narratives, the composition of some Hebrew words and explanations about colors and their meanings in the Hebrew texts in the rabbinical Jewish literature context. This article approach helps the memorization of Hebrew vocabulary through the connection found between the symbolical and the literal roots of the Hebrew morphemes.

The novel Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (All Russians Love Birch Trees, 2014, English translation by Eva Bacon) written by Olga Grjasnowa and published in 2012 deals with a young Jewish woman who emigrates from Azerbaijan to Germany and who spends some months in Israel. The novel tackles the conflicts related to the process of immigration and redefinition in new cultural contexts. Thus, this article aims to focus on the problematization of cultural identity and agency, discussing this intersection in two contexts: firstly the Jewish cultural identity in a minority context and secondly the same cultural identity and its negotiation in Israel. In both contexts, the main character remains a foreigner, weaving an identity narration far from religious and national macro-narratives.

The adjective “sephardic” concerns the jews that came from Spain and Portugal, evicted from their homelands, respectively, in 1492 and 1496. During the time of the persecutions of the Holy Inquisition, the destination of these evicted Jews has varied widely: North of Africa, Italy, Holand, South of France and the Ottoman Empire. As a result, this sephardic Jews community has brought with them a tradition represented by their language, the Judeo-Spanish dialect, with a strong iberian component, initiated sixteen centuries ago, as musical and literary expressions, passed down from generation to generation. In this sense, the present essay aims to identify, in the sephardic folk songs, elements of a literary tradition quite troubadour-like. For this purpose, the subject of this paper analysis consists of songs, consecrated in the voices of singers, among them, Yehoram Gaon, Fortuna and Yasmin Levy. It has been concluded that, due to the isolation of these Jewish communities in comparison to those of the Iberian Peninsula, the Sephardic oral texts maintain a strong medieval literary and philosophical conservatism. Among the consulted bibliographies, Scliar-Cabral (1990), Moisés (1970, 1972) and Saraiva e Lopes (1989) stand out.

In this article, we present an observation favoring a comparison between Mrs. Ramsay, from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, and Marim Lispector, from In Exile, by Elisa Lispector. In this analysis, it was preferred to observe the interferences of a conflict in the daily life of European women in the first decades of the twentieth century, taking into account the social role reserved for the female gender in that context.

The objective of this paper is to identify in the writing/reading of Franz Kafka, from The Castle, the intersection between the problem of the crisis of tradition, raised by Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, and the textualization of the truth that emerges from exegetical practices in the mystical tradition of Judaism, especially in the kabbalistic theory of language. Following the discussion of the main theories present in the bibliographic reference, we will analyze how the writing in Kafka uses the commentary as method, merging exegesis and literary creation. The journey of the character of The Castle, rather than intriguing peripécie, develops, in a parody, an exegetical practice proper to the Jewish tradition. We can conclude that the truth in Kafka is inseparable from the text and commentary, which brings us to the infinitely interpretable Name of God envisioned by the mystical tradition of Kabbalah. In Kafka's writing, the inseparable truth of the labyrinth of interpretations points to the crisis of tradition as an essential feature of its modernity, expressing the boundaries between religion and nihilism.

What is necessary to see through a seemingly limited and limiting window? The Israeli poet Dahlia Ravikovitch offers us, through her poetic instruments, her discursive and poetic experiences on Israeli-Palestinian relations in chronic personal, cultural and political confrontations through thousands of years, worsening in the 20th and 21st centuries. This study, in this aesthetic-social context will analyze two poems of this activist artist that are: “The Tale of the Arab Who Died by Fire” and “The Baby Cannot Be Killed Twice”. Poems that deal with the ethical and aesthetic positioning of a large Israeli social segment in the framework of the living metaphor and of the minor literature in the face of possible dialogues with Palestinian society that hybridizes identity aspects.