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In Histórias do Rabi, 1949, Martin Buber assumes that the stories are counted there are legends created by enthusiastic people who believed have realized certain facts. That is precisely why Buber calls of reality: “the reality of ardent souls, a reality produced in total innocence, with no place for invention or to the whim”.

In the history of the West, particularly in the Middle Age and during the Renaissance, not distinguished magic, spells and natural sciences. Philosophy and Theology, for example, focused his attention separating the “magic” of “popular natural magic;” the latter related to demonic forces.

Evil is in the creation not as a foreign agent and has entrenched therein; It is part of its innermost essence. The tradition said that the sages of the time of Ezra implorer on that the power of the iétzar hará, the inclination of the man towards evil, outside eliminated forever; and God attended this claim but through a prophet warned: “Be care because if you destroy this, the whole world will be destroyed”.

This article analyzes the short story “Parábola do filho e da fábula” by Samuel Rawet. Adopting the form “parable”, Rawet points to the biblical text as a paradigm of his literary construction, he discusses literature itself, questioning the possibility and effectiveness of its use for the transmission of moral lessons, focuses on the instrumentalization of literature, the usual trend of putting it at the service of transmitting a particular set of moral lessons and reveals the relationship between ethics and literature

The Hebrew legend of the Golem appears in an episode of the novel O último suspiro do mouro, by Indian author Salman Rushdie and acquires new contours. The postmodern novels use and abuse of the conventions of elite and popular literature and intertextual resources. This type of feature, common in Rushdie’s novels, acts to address and to subvert the fragmentation of the speeches historiographic metafiction and recognize in a complex network of discourse: “official” cultures and popular.

The mythical theme of the cosmic tree on which rests the world merges with the theme of the world’s monarchies; by itself this would suffice to point an influence, but also a very close relationship between Iranian and Jewish doctrines. It should be noted, however, that there is not a single tree with sparse branches, but several trees; the imagination of visionary gave a significant jump in this respect.

Analysis of the short story “The hunger and desire to eat” by Cíntia Moscovich. The sacred character of food and meals, your moment of kinship and redemption of a nostalgic time of coexistence is, in the plot, watermarked by irony, which deconstructs sayings rooted and tradition.

3 variaciones sobre el silencio

Resenha a: BIALIK, Haim Nahman. A trombeta envergonhada. Organização, tradução e notas de Eliana Langer e Nancy Rozenchan. São Paulo: Globo, 2007. 373p.

Resenha a: SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. 47 contos. Trad. José Rubens Siqueira. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2004. 719p.  

Resenha a: LEVI, Primo. 71 contos de Primo Levi. Trad. Maurício Santana Dias. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2005. 523p.

As narrativas pioneiras do Holocausto  

La corona

Treinta y dos son los senderos

Gueto

The concentration camp experience mark the Primo Levi literature with a remarkable spot at the literary use of memory and witness of the Inhuman Horror: the process of dehumanization and extermination of the jews during the Holocaust. But there is another literature cultivated by Levi: fantastic and allegorical, with some elements and reasons of science fiction. Are these two literatures – different in tone and theme – really far or some twists can approach both? This is a central question of our essays.

This text intends to pass for the readings made on the text of Zechariah prophet. There is no intention to make an exegetical boarding, but before, only a description of the research of the prophet, so little read in Brazil and Latin America. Its relevance leads to the knowledge of the positions and most innovative the more classic proposals and of the interpretation of this predictive text.

In the novel A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, by Moacyr Scliar, the irony is able to promote the deconstruction of the hierarchy which impedes the linearity and historic conception of progress. This article analyzes how irony would be inherent to the modern concept of genealogy from the idea of "happening" and "scene" by Linda Hutcheon. This concept questions the belief at an absolute origin on the Scliar text.

This article is focused in the genesis of Jewish people that, passing through primary successive historical situations, establish themselves as nation/state. Their destruction and exiles will be analyzed in this article, focusing the Babylonian. The biblical report related to the creation of the world, the Shabat, the deluge and its unfoldings and the named Tower of Babel and its multiplicity of languages, however, have been omitted, to directly deal with the symbol of the divine promise to Abraham. So, this text begins from the statement that the Jewish history, as registered in the Bible, has its beginning marked by an irreversible collapse act that was determinant to the construction of its identity profile.

The Jewish humorous folklore is maybe one of the richest ones. This article exposes its configuration since the bible epic until the contemporaneity, from an overview perspective. Therefore, this text aims for a reflection about the manifestation of this humour in the popular laughter, in the tasteful stories and in the set of anecdotes of the Jewish tradition