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In this paper, we will talk about Jewish writing in the Amazon. Sultana Levy Rosenblatt, Marcos Serruya, Leão Pacífico Esaguy and Paulo Jacob were born in the Amazon, and in their works, there are clear records of Jewish culture and its relationship with Amazon’s culture. Therefore, we seek to understand what this Jewish writing consists of, taking as reference the following literary works: Uma grande mancha de sol and Barracão by Sultana Levy Rosenblatt, Um pedaço de lua caía na mata and Chuva branca by Paul Jacob, Contos amazonenses and Enxuga as lágrimas e segue o caminho que te determinaste by Leão Pacífico Esaguy and Cabelos de fogo e O cabalista by Marcos Serruya.

In biblical studies the wisdom literature goes through a revisiting process: scholars stress the need of reading the text in an attentive and intertextual way, in order to encompass dialogue and the concept in the wisdom discourses. Among the revisited concepts is the use of חָכְמָח (ḥokmāh), which is often taken as the technical term for the genre. In order to develop such efforts and safeguard the broad dialogic proportions of the Hebrew Bible, this paper has as its aim to study the Arabic corresponding of حِكمَة (ḥikma), exploring its semantic reach and contributing to readings of the Wisdom Literature in the Hebrew Bible. حِكمَة is understood as referring mainly to the knowledge developed from human experience, without excluding its religious proportion.

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Resenha a: AVIGUR-ROTEM, Gabriela. Mozart não era judeu. Trad. Nancy Rosenchan Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 1997. 388p

In 2007 I had the chance to direct Brundibár ,a children’s opera by the Czech composer  Hans  Krása,  as  part  of  a  project  carried  out  at  the  Juiz  de  Fora  Military College (CMJF) in Brazil. At face value, it seems trivial: one more school music project. However, the context within which the opera acquired renown –that of the Holocaust –broadens the project’s reach. This context produced profound reflections on the links between ethics and aesthetics, particularly when it came to remember –with children – traumatic events that themselves involved so many youngsters. This article reports on that experience.

Films produced by ultra-orthodox Jews acquired in the early years of the 21st century an important space within their own communities. They reflect the relationship between the ultra-orthodox communities and the State of Israel and the Zionist ideology. Appropriating the Hollywood genre of action films, even if within its walls, these films offer a visual alternative where the conflicting aspects and negotiations between such different sectors in Israeli society are discussed. In parallel, the narratives presented bring discussion about the ultra-orthodox male body, its imaginary place in Israeli society and the fantasies of transgression.

This article seeks to understand how Palestinians and Jews were represented by the pages of the main Brazilian newsmagazines in July 2014, when the operation known as the Protecting Margin took place. For this, the notions of acontecimento (Louis Queré) and framing (Erwin Goffman) were used. In operationalizing such concepts, we use an image and textual analysis based on the principles of Erwin Panofsky and Roland Barthes, as well as the concept of pathosformeln that Aby Warburg developed to understand how an image can survive in the symbolic universe of a certain society. The article concludes that the four newsmagazines presented different narratives for the same event, as well as distinct identities for the actors involved in this event. All magazines used images that evoke Christian iconography.

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The Holocaust is today a privileged theme in the discussion agenda of different disciplines of the Humanities and arts, in other parts of the world and also in Brazil. Disseminated in studies inserted in the rubric “testimony in literature”, this theme and its consequences make up an interdisciplinary field of research carried out in different contexts in the phase of expansion and deepening. It is a work in progress as the field of study is delineating and the specific bibliography is still relatively scarce.

Anti-Semitism as a practice of Nazi totalitarianism, both by discourse and by the Holocaust, represents its most well-known manifestation worldwide. However, its origins demand a return to Rome, where the divergences between Judaism and the emergent Christianity contributed to build it. Thus the purpose of this article is to foster some historical understanding of the subject from some approaches that bridge the gap between the early anti-Semitism of Christianity and the appropriation of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion by the Nazis.

In his archives and through testimonies of his wife, André SchwarzBart showed a strong interest in anthropological research, which can be measured in his work during his stays in Guyana and Senegal or even in Guadeloupe, the Caribbean. The anthropological basis of André and Simone Schwarz-Bart's novels will be analyzed in this article, with emphasis on Caribbean and Ashkenazi references, assessing their important contribution to anthropological research. Using examples from Le Dernier des Juste, L'Étoile du matin, Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, the universal anthropological search for these communities in a “contact zone” will be demonstrated: initiation rituals, birth ceremonies and funerals, the spiritual quest, the trance phenomenon and alter/native religions.

This article deals with the novel Diário da queda by Michel Laub in 2011. It is a book that has become a milestone of contemporary Brazilian literature because of its narrative complexity and also the innovative way it focused on memory, childhood and Shoah.

This article was presented on the occasion of the Primo Levi Seminary (1919-2019), promoted by Nucleus of Jewish Studies (UFMG), in honor of the centenary of Primo Levi's birth. It deals with the relationship between poetry and politics from the fundamental place played by the dream in the testimonial work of Primo Levi. This theme will develop in three movements: Dream is the politics of poetry; Poetry is the dream of politics; Politics is the poetry of dream.

The cuneiform documents from Al-Yahudu enable us to reconsider the material life and social conditions of Judah communities exiled in Babylon between the conquest of the Kingdom of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar II and the Persian period. The contracts also reveal some interesting elements of identity, cultural and religious formulations and negotiations in a multiethnic and multicultural environment. The new picture provided by the documents differs considerably from that of the biblical narratives.

It is a book of testimonial content published in 1947 in Berlin. It became very well known in the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Published in the former GDR did not interest the communist regime. According to Paola Traverso, the Germans came to value the 'LTI' as a way of apologizing to the Jews. Klemperer abandoned his sense of Germanity after suffering all the insults imposed by Nazism.

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