Based on the semiotic analysis of an episode of the documentary Shoah (Lanzmann, 1985), the present text deals with a problem related to the indexical action of signs in it. What is the nature of a film which attempts to reconstruct meticulously the time of unimaginable horror based on the testimonies of survivors, but which sometimes uses staged, fictional indexes? This is precisely what takes place in one of ...
This article aims to analyze critically the book of José Lins do Rego, Roteiro de Israel, 1955. It seeks to detach two supplemental aspects: a poetic view and ethical-political concerns took by the writer about the construction of the new State of Israel. It is also observed, there, the relation between the signs of modernity and archaic Jewish stories. For this, the concept of palimpsest, Gerard Genette, and f...
Este texto aborda por médio de la ficción, la cuestión del enfrentamiento entre judíos sefaradies y orientales y la élite ashkenazi hegemónica por la definición de la identidad nacional del Estado de Israel. Este enfrentamiento es representado por los personajes de Michael Sommo, un judío argelino y Alex Guideon, hijo de pioneros de Europa Oriental, dos de las figuras centrales en la tramadel romance A caixa pr...
Between 1963 and 1964, the Brazilian intellectual Guilherme Figueiredo – playwright, novelist and critic – traveled to Israel, the new-born nation of fifteen years. The book Deus sobre as pedras: Israel, published in 1965, is the result of that travel. The report contains many subjects relating to Israel, provided explanations on the formation of the state, the dramatic criticism of Israeli authors, explaining ...
The Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo traveled to Israel with his wife in April 1966, invited by Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The notes made by Verissimo during the route through the major israeli cities were turned into the book Israel in April, written and published three years after the trip. The writer sent to his publisher, along with the handwriting of the opus, a letter in which he showed that his...
In the Hebrew Bible, the phenomenon of war is portrayed as having a direct connection to God. The divine protection of the people of Israel is at the root of biblical theology. In David Grossman’s A Woman Flees (Isha borachat min ha-bessora), as in Homeric poetry, the realities of war and warriors are contrasted with the realities of common people, and the narrative creates a vast abyss, separating these two sp...
The main difficulty faced by immigrants in Israel, especially in the 1950s, and particularly by those coming from Morocco, was the concept of melting pot, the forced conception of forging the average Israeli by imposing that they gave up the symbols and traditional values they brought along in order to absorb the values and symbols of the society in which they started living and with which they were to be merge...
This article catalogs some contemporary Israeli artists and their artwork in Israel.; Este artigo cataloga alguns artistas israelenses contemporâneos e seu trabalho artístico em Israel.
Este artículo pretende ofrecer unaidea panorámica de la obra Israel Ba-Golá”del historiador Ben Zion Dinur, a partir de los diferentes períodos existentes en la historia judía. Para Dinur, el grande idealizador del Museu del Holocausto Iad Vashem, em Jerusalém; los diversos tiempos de la historia judía precisan ser analizados por intermedio de dos grandes grupos o categorías: épocas de estabilidad, creatividad ...
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