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Practical Lessons from the Manual of Carioca Judaism according to Paulo Blank
Rozenchan, NancyIn addition to proposing to account for a life story or part of it, the formative novel needs to accommodate to a series of other classifications that are sometimes coupled to one or more particular categories. Such is the novel Mentch, a arte de criar um homem (Mentch, the art of creating a man), by Paulo Blank, which proposes to include in little Paulo’s formation all the virtues of being a Jewish boy in Rio ...
Jewish Life in Belém do Pará: The Registration By Isaac P. Melul
Bialski, Adriana Abuhab; Rozenchan, NancyThe booklet titled Piyutim by Isaac P. Melul, from the collection of the Jewish Museum of São Paulo, a precious document not only for its main content – a collection of Hebrew liturgical poems – but for the most varied information recorded by the one who was known as Seu Melul – is the object of this text. The various data included in it, by bringing different aspects of Jewish life in Belém do Pará in the 20th...
Shemot: The Songs of the Exodus: os cânticos do Êxodo
Rozenchan, NancyTaken literally, the book Shemot [names, in Hebrew, which is the second word at the beginning of the text] or Exodus, as it is known in many languages, begins with a list of the names of those who went down to Egypt, and then presents a narrative of consecutive incidents and events. This article analyzes, between the two parts in which Shemot can be divided, liberation and the covenant with divine commandments,...
Practical Lessons from the Manual of Carioca Judaism according to Paulo Blank
Rozenchan, NancyIn addition to proposing to account for a life story or part of it, the formative novel needs to accommodate to a series of other classifications that are sometimes coupled to one or more particular categories. Such is the novel Mentch, a arte de criar um homem (Mentch, the art of creating a man), by Paulo Blank, which proposes to include in little Paulo’s formation all the virtues of being a Jewish boy in Rio ...
"Ruben", a Parable for Our Times
Rozenchan, NancyWhen a parable has exaggerated details and talking animals, it is sometimes known as an apologist. While themes and justifications for parables / apologists have been practically unchanged for centuries, forms and artifices to address them tend to multiply and draw on innovations, as can be seen in Shelly Oria and Nelly Reifler’s “Ruben” which is where the narrative spills after extrapolating the limits of mora...
The Literary Universe Of Etkar Kéret in HQ, Cinema, Theater, Ballet and Book
Rozenchan, Nancy“Disenchantment is a fundamental part of Etgar Kéret’s work because it accounts for the lack of meaning of the facts and for what the Israeli critics call a return to the ordinary meaning of everyday life” (BERCITO, 2014, 4), said the journalist Brazilian Diogo Bercito about the tales of one of the most popular Israeli authors he interviewed. Kéret’s mini-narratives are compact stories, postmodern texts in vide...
De Menachem-Mendel a Norman
Rozenchan, NancyResenha a: NORMAN: confie em mim. Roteiro e direção: Joseph Cedar. Produtores: David Mandill, Lawrence Inglee e Miranda Bailey. Distribuidor: California Filmes. 2016 (no Brasil em 2017). 117 min.
“Old”, but always present
Rozenchan, NancyThe scholars of today hardly have knowledge of Yiddish and, anyway, need to unfold between the ancient authors, the modern and the contemporary in a cultural universe whose dimensions would be once no imagined. Some might even suspect that those works still offer. How is it possible, in this day and age, unfold and stick to what the ancient authors bequeathed us?; Os estudiosos da atualidade dificilmente têm co...