882 research outputs found
De Odessa a São Paulo: uma vida traduzida
No full textDe Odessa a São Paulo: uma vida traduzida. Saul Kirschbaum entrevista Boris Schnaiderman
Saul Bellow and the evolution of the American masculine experience: a study on Dangling Man, The Victim and Seize the Day
No full textThe following thesis studies the philosophical and sociological background of three novels written by Saul Bellow between 1944 and 1956, namely Dangling Man, The Victim, and Seize the Day. During this period, the place of the individual in society changed rapidly and this created tension between the social organisation in place and individuals who struggled to find their place in society. The focus on individuality in Saul Bellow's early novels has led to the consensus that the author conveys ideas which relate to the philosophical current of Existentialism. This association has shadowed other aspects of these three novels such as their sociological relevancy. The purpose of this thesis is to expand upon the existentialist focus present in most criticism in order to demonstrate the sociological evolution of the American masculine experience. In turn, this aims to highlight the shift from a traditional image of masculinity based on heroism, personal ambition, and restrictive emotionality to a masculine identity more inclined to question its perception of itself and the world. To do so, it relates each novel to influential studies conducted at the time to offer an evolutionary perspective of the American masculine identity within that particular time-frame. For each novel, it exposes the male protagonist's struggles with social organisation to offer a valuable insight in the treatment and evolution of the masculine identity in Saul Bellow's early novels. Altogether, this thesis aims to develop connections between Saul Bellow's fiction and the historical challenges faced by American males in urban America
Il “Saul” di Vittorio Alfieri
No full textMy paper analyzes Vittorio Alifieri’s tragedy Saul. The author writes the tragedy after reading
the Bible, and particularly Samuel’s first book. Alfieri is enthusiastic about the biblical text,
thanks to its “sublime” theme and style, very useful for adapting the story as a tragedy. Alfieri
creates Saul without betraying the spirit of the source text – he underlines the king of Israel’s
ambivalent behavior toward his son-in-law David, whom he loves and hates at the same time.
From this perspective, Saul is quite a different character from the other “tyrants” from Alfieri’s
other tragedies. In his own words, the author finds in Saul «that uncertainty of the human heart,
so magical; so, a man loving two loves opposite to one another, wants and does not want the very
same thing. This uncertainty is one of the major secrets for generating emotion and suspension in
a theatre». And Alfieri makes it. He himself plays Saul on stage, many times, since he considers
him his “dearest” character – according to the author, in this character there is «everything,
absolutely everything». Moreover, Saul has been staged with the most famous actors all along the
Nineteenth and Twentieth century
1 - Samuel Dong Saul
No full textThis is a lightbox that is 40 x 25 inches in size, with different color lithographs on Mylar.Is it really strange to think that objects speak? Take a moment to think about this very closely; they might not be speaking to you in a verbal form, but they are surely communicating messages to you in way only you can understand. Could this means they could feel, think, just the way we do? Perhaps. Objects are often part of language, sometimes even before they exist. These objects become social or cultural artifacts well before they are used by living things. Objects "meanings" and "functions" are framed within the constrains of a cultural group. We assign them significance because of what they do, and what they are made off. Shapes, colors, matter, and the combinations of the three build pretty much everything in our observable universe. We just interpret what they might be. If we are made of the same matter, why not think that they might be "alive" too, with feelings and ideas of their own. We will never know what they really want, but we can sure interpret what they are trying to communicate. Contemporary artist make works that engage with viewers about theories of symbolic communication and strategies of analysis. Many of them use text simply for its ability to communicate meaning that are difficult to express in images alone; to convey ideas, descriptions, arguments, and possibly, the interpretation of what the objects someone interacts with, are trying to say.Visual and Performing Arts
Samuel Rawet: prophet of alterity.
No full textEsta pesquisa teve como objetivo central contribuir para o resgate da obra de Samuel Rawet, principalmente através da análise de sua primeira coletânea, Contos do Imigrante, publicado em 1956. Buscou-se estabelecer o lugar de sua produção literária, sob duas óticas concomitantes e convergentes: a da literatura judaica produzida no Brasil e a da literatura brasileira no gênero que Rawet privilegiou, o conto. Na busca da consecução dessas metas, a pesquisa foi dividida em cinco partes: O capítulo primeiro, Fortuna Crítica de Samuel Rawet, apresenta um levantamento, ao longo da carreira de Rawet, sobre como se procedeu a recepção de sua obra pela crítica especializada; para tanto, foram pesquisados jormais, revistas de literatura e livros de crítica literária. Constatou-se que, em termos gerais, os especialistas sempre acolheram favoravelmente os textos de ficção publicados por Rawet, não obstante algumas poucas opiniões desabonadoras. Porém, o que surpreende, por sua escassez, é a quantidade de textos que tratam da obra de Rawet, a crescente indiferença dos analistas. O capítulo segundo, Uma Autobiografia, procura traçar um panorama da vida de Rawet, com absoluta ênfase para os aspectos relacionados com sua produção literária. Para tanto, foram compilados trechos de entrevistas concedidas por Rawet em diferentes momentos de sua carreira. Estes depoimentos foram contextualizados pelo autor por meio de análises das condições de vida dos judeus na Europa Oriental e de como se procedeu o grande êxodo da Rússia e da Polônia, principalmente para os Estados Unidos, mas também para o Brasil e para outros países americanos. O capítulo terceiro, Narratividade, Linguagem, Exclusão, analisa os primeiros cinco contos da coletânea Contos do Imigrante, ou seja, os contos em que Rawet se detém em protagonistas judeus, em suas relações com as respectivas famílias e com a comunidade judaica, grupos tradicionalmente tidos como pilares da vivência judaica. O capítulo quarto, A Responsabilidade Social, busca observar, por meio da leitura dos cinco contos não-judaicos da coletânea Contos do Imigrante, o surgimento da consciência social no jovem Samuel Rawet, na medida em que se sente, cada vez, mais um pensador brasileiro. Por fim, o capítulo quinto, Bibliografia Geral, relaciona todas as obras de Samuel Rawet e tudo o que foi escrito a seu respeito, de cuja existência o autor teve conhecimento, além de outras obras de caráter geral utilizadas no texto. Apesar de ter presente que essa relação é incompleta, acredito que poderá servir de ponto de partida para outros interessados, e espero ter dado um passo, ainda que modesto, no caminho de uma sistematização da bibliografia de e sobre Samuel Rawet, cuja importância é correlativa da importância do próprio Samuel Rawet para a literatura brasileira e para a produção cultural judaico-brasileira.This research has had as its central purpose to contribute for the rescue of Samuel Rawets work, mainly through the analysis of his first book, Contos do Imigrante (Immigrant stories), published in 1956. It was sought to establish the locus of his literary production, under two concomitant and converging optics: that of the Jewish literature produced in Brazil, and that of the Brazilian literature of the genre privileged by Rawet, the short story. Searching to attain these goals, the research has been divided into five parts: Chapter one, Samuel Rawets Critical Fortune, surveys the reception of Rawets works by the specialized critique alongside his career; newspapers, literature magazines, and books on literature critique were searched. It has been observed that, in general terms, specialists have always given Rawets fictional works a favorable welcome, notwithstanding some few dissonant opinions. However, what astonishes us, for its scarcity, is the number of texts dealing with Rawets work, the growing indifference of the critics. Chapter two, An Autobiography, tries to draw a panorama of Rawets life, with absolute emphasis on the aspects related to his literary production. For this purpose, passages extracted from interviews given by Rawet in different points of his career have been compiled. These testimonies were contextualized by the present author by means of analyses of Jewish life conditions in Eastern Europe and of the particularities of the great exodus from Russia and Poland, mainly to the United States but also to Brazil and other American countries. Chapter three, Narrativity, Language, Exclusion, analyses the first five stories in the anthology Contos do Imigrante, that is, those in which Rawet focuses on Jewish protagonists, the relationships with their respective families and with the Jewish community, groups that are traditionally held as pillars of the Jewish life. Chapter four, Social Responsibility, tries to observe, through the reading of the five "non-Judaic" stories of the anthology Contos do Imigrante, the appearance of a social conscience in the young Samuel Rawet as he feels more and more like a Brazilian thinker. At last, chapter five, General Bibliography, presents a list of Samuel Rawets books and all that has been written about him, of whose existence the present author has had acquaintance, besides other works of general character that the author has made use of. Despite being aware that this relation is not complete, I believe that it may serve as a starting point for other researchers, and I hope to have advanced a step, if modest, towards the systematization of a bibliography by and on Samuel Rawet, whose importance is correlate to the importance of Samuel Rawet himself for Brazilian literature and for the Jewish-Brazilian cultural production
Saul Who Also Is Called Paul
No full textFrom the time of Origen and of Rufinus and St. Jerome the question of the apparent change of the apostle's name from Saul to Paul has interested students of the New Testament. The problem is due to the fact that the author of the Acts in briefly giving an account of Paul's meeting with the Roman governor of Cyprus, Sergius Paullus, and with the false prophet Elymas, simply states: “Then Saul (who also is called Paul) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, etc.” Before this verse in Acts the apostle's name is invariably given as Saul, and after this verse he is always called Paul, except in two passages where there is reference to the very beginning of his career, his conversion. In his letters the name Paul, and never Saul, is used.</jats:p
Mosaico e arqueologia: a literatura israelense contemporânea
No full textResenha a KIRSCHBAUM, Saul; WALDMAN, Berta (Org.). Ensaios sobre literatura israelense contemporânea. São Paulo: Humanitas, 2011. 252p
Amos Oz: Of Loyalties And Betrayals
No full textThis article will examine Judas, the most recent novel (2014) published by the Israeli writer Amos Oz. In this work of fiction, the author uses the context of the alleged betrayal of Judas the apostle, narrated in the Gospels, and the delicate emotional relationship between a young college student and a middle-aged war widow to address the intense controversy within the Zionist movement in the years before the establishment of the State of Israel, marked by vehement accusations of treason against the militants who opposed the hegemonic line of the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency - they proposed the creation of a binational state - and attempts to de-legitimize them.91
Ethics and Literature in Samuel Rawet\'s work
No full textO presente trabalho trata de estabelecer as conexões entre os aspectos éticos e os propriamente literários na obra do escritor judeu-brasileiro Samuel Rawet, nascido na Polônia em 1929, que viveu no Brasil de 1936 até sua morte em 1984. Rawet é autor de considerável obra ficcional, notadamente nos gêneros conto e novela curta, além de alguns ensaios de caráter filosófico. Por hipótese, não há como pensar em ética e literatura sem algum esforço para situar o relacionamento entre esses dois assuntos historicamente e estabelecer um quadro conceitual de referência; isto é empreendido no primeiro capítulo da pesquisa, que focaliza a comparação na obra de Platão e Dante, introduz a crítica de Theodor Adorno à assim chamada literatura engajada, e expõe brevemente o pensamento do filósofo judeu Emmanuel Levinas, que dedicou em sua obra atenção especial à própria condição da literatura para servir de suporte para um discurso verdadeiramente ético. A posição ética de Rawet é, então, apreciada em alguns de seus contos, tanto nos aspectos temáticos de solidariedade para com o oprimido, denúncia da violência, etc, quanto nos formais, como sejam foco narrativo, estruturação fragmentária de narradores e personagens, rompimento das fronteiras espaço-temporais. Por fim, a pesquisa apontou para o fato de que a postura ética manifestada por Rawet em sua literatura não pode ser dissociada de sua \"questão judaica\" - seu difícil relacionamento com os judeus concretos com os quais de alguma forma conviveu, e sua profunda admiração por alguns pensadores judeus, notadamente Martin Buber e Baruch Spinoza, que considerava como os maiores representantes da grande tradição judaica; esta associação é formalmente exposta e desenvolvida no capítulo final, dedicado às \"conclusões\".The present work deals with the establishment of connections between the ethical aspects and the specifically literary aspects in the work of Samuel Rawet, Jewish-Brazilian writer born in Poland in 1929, who lived in Brazil since 1936 until his death, in 1984. Rawet let a considerable amount of fictional work, mainly in the form of short tales, as well as some philosophical essays. Naturally, there is no way of thinking about ethics and literature without some effort to locate historically the relationship between these two concerns and to establish a conceptual framework; this is undertaken in the first chapter, that focuses the comparison in the works of Plato and Dante, introduces Theodor Adorno\'s criticism to the so called engaged literature, and briefly exposes the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas, Jewish philosopher that gave, in his works, especial atention to the very aptitude of literature to serve as support to a truely ethical discourse. Rawet\'s ethical position is then appreciated in some of his short tales, both in the thematic aspects of solidarity toward the opressed, denunciation of violence, and so on, and in the formal aspects, like narrative focus, fragmented structuration of narrators and characters, disruption of space-time frontiers. At last, the research pointed to the fact that the ethical position manifested by Rawet in his literature cannot be dissociated from his \"Jewish question\" - his difficult relationship with the real Jews with whom he lived together, and his deep admiration for some Jewish thinkers, mainly Martin Buber and Baruch Spinoza, which he had as the greatest representatives of the great Jewish tradition; this association is formally exposed and developed in the final chapter, dedicated to \"conclusions\"
Centenário de nascimento de um grande intelectual judeu
No full textO ano de 2023 evoca o centenário de nascimento de um grande intelectual judeu-brasileiro, Henrique Rattner. Rattner é responsável por importantes contribuições para organizações nacionais e internacionais - coordenou os Programas LEAD, Prolides e Pronord da ABDL (Programas de Liderança e Desenvolvimento Sustentável no âmbito internacional, no Mercosul e no Nordeste) e também coordenou pesquisas e foi consultor de instituições nacionais como CNPq, FINEP, MCT, SEPLAN/SP, SENAI, SEBRAE e IPT, e internacionais como ONU, UNESCO e Banco Mundial. Mesmo assim, Ratter não perdeu de vista sua condição de educador e judeu: foi por muitos anos diretor do Lar das Crianças, mantido pela CIP, coordenou uma profunda e abrangente pesquisa sobre a comunidade judaica de São Paulo, que resultou no livro Tradição e Mudança (1977), e elaborou diversos artigos e palestras sobre a questão do conflito entre palestinos e isralenses, que acabaram por ser reunidos no livro Israel e a Paz no Oriente Médio: Uma Luz no Fim do Túnel?, lançado em 2008. Em comemoração de seu centenário, seu filho Jair publicou Sob as asas da fala e da escrita: histórias da vida de Henrique Rattner, recentemente lançado.The year 2023 evokes the centenary of the birth of a great Jewish-Brazilian intellectual, Henrique Rattner. Rattner is responsible for important contributions to national and international organizations – he coordinated ABDL’s LEAD, Prolides and Pronord Programs (Leadership and Sustainable Development Programs internationally, in Mercosur and in the Northeast) and also coordinated researches and was a consultant for national institutions, such as CNPq, FINEP, MCT, SEPLAN/SP, SENAI, SEBRAE and IPT, and international ones such as the UN, UNESCO and the World Bank. Even so, Rattner did not lose sight of his status as an educator and a Jew: for many years he was the director of the Lar das Crianças, maintained by CIP, he coordinated a deep and comprehensive survey of the Jewish community in São Paulo, which resulted in the book Tradição e Mudança (1977), and produced several articles and lectures on the issue of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, which ended up being gathered in the book Israel e a Paz no Oriente Médio: Uma Luz no Fim do Túnel? released in 2008. In celebration of his centenary, his son Jair published Sob as asas da fala e da escrita: histórias da vida de Henrique Rattner, recently released
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