Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-05-20T15:19:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Eliezer Castiel Menda .pdf: 11662498 bytes, checksum: 9a4a755314bf1ec7e82756435514b960 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-20T15:19:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eliezer Castiel Menda .pdf: 11662498 bytes, checksum: 9a4a755314bf1ec7e82756435514b960 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-16 / Nenhuma / Esta tese lança um olhar sobre as tensões e conflitos identitários dos descendentes de cristãos-novos – bnei anoussim– com base nas interações produzidas em algumas comunidades no Orkut (como fenômeno e objeto de investigação comunicacional com caracterizações processuais midiáticas). As tensões se dão no âmbito das relações sociais e na afirmação de sua identidade social, cultural e religiosa, revelando aspectos ora de origem judaica ora de origem cristã. Os conflitos emergem quando os bnei anoussim, ao se afirmarem judeus, não encontram legitimidade no âmbito das comunidades judaicas. Como refutam a tradição cristã, os bnei anoussim deparam-se com o dilema da conversão (o que implica na negação da história de seus antepassados e da tradição cultural) ao judaísmo, e tentam junto às comunidades judaicas serem aceitos como retornados. Isto é, aceitos como judeus que, por algum motivo, alheio à sua vontade ou por necessidade e condição, mantiveram-se distantes do judaísmo. Busca-se, então, entrelaçar os campos da Comunicação, Religião, História, Antropologia e Sociologia, com ênfase no primeiro, a fim de produzir conhecimentos que permitam explicitar a relevância dos processos comunicacionais e midiáticos, não só na problemática identitária entre judeus e bnei anoussim, mas também na configuração de um saber importante e articulado às demais áreas envolvidas. / This thesis seeks to cast a glance on the tensions and conflicts of identity of the descendants of new-christians - bnei anoussim- from the interactions produced in some communities in Orkut (as a phenomenon and an object of communicational investigation with media procedural characterizations). Tensions occur within social relationships and assertion of their social, cultural and religious identity revealing aspects of sometimes jewish, sometimes christian origin. Conflicts emerge when bnei anoussim, on asserting themselves Jews, find no legitimacy within the Jewish communities. As they refute the Christian tradition, bnei anoussimfaced with the dilemma of the conversion (which implies the denying of their ancestors’ history and cultural tradition) to Judaism and trying along with the Jewish communities to be accepted as returned, accepted as Jews who, for some reason unrelated to his will or necessity and condition, remained distant from Judaism. Then, aims to weave together the fields of Communication, Religion, History, Anthropology and Sociology, with emphasis on Communication, in order to produce know ledge to explain the relevance of communication and media processes not only on the issue of identity between jews and bnei anoussimbut also on the configuration of an important and articulated knowledge to other areas involved.

Mon mémoire propose un portrait ethnographique de la congrégation juive reconstructionniste Dorshei Emet à travers l’analyse combinée des rituels et des discours des membres. Les rituels proposés à la congrégation transmettent la philosophie reconstructionniste et un éthos que les membres s’approprient de différentes façons. Pour plusieurs membres qui ne croient pas en Dieu ou qui sont agnostiques, le rituel devient l’expression d’un lien à la tradition juive à travers la vie communautaire. De fait, le rôle de la communauté religieuse dans la vie quotidienne de ses membres ainsi que leur rôle en son sein seront analysés. L’intérêt est avant tout de saisir la valeur que les membres attribuent à leur participation aux rituels. Une attention particulière sera également portée au sens que le religieux a eu dans leurs trajectoires personnelles jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Ce mémoire participe au tableau de la diversité au sein du judaïsme québécois, mais aussi plus largement au portrait global de la diversité religieuse au Québec. / My thesis offers an ethnographic portrait of the Jewish Reconstructionist congregation Dorshei Emet through a combined analysis of rituals and members discourses. Dorshei Emet rituals transmit the reconstructionist philosophy and a certain ethos to its attendees, who assimilate them in various ways. For some members who do not believe in God or who are agnostics, ritual becomes the expression of a connexion to Jewish tradition through community life. Accordingly, I will analyze the religious community’s role in its members' everyday lives and the role of the members in it. Above all, the aim is to apprehend the value that members attribute to their participation to rituals. Special attention will also be given to the meaning that religion has had in members' life trajectories. This thesis contributes to efforts to give account of diversity among Jews in Quebec, and more generally, to advance our knowledge of religious diversity in Quebec.

Traversant à eux trois l’ensemble du XXe siècle, Vladimir Nabokov, Romain Gary et Philip Roth sont issus de mondes géographiques, culturels et théoriques différents. Pourtant, leur œuvre et leur conception de la fiction présentent bien des affinités : une sensibilité cosmopolite, une réflexion sur l'écriture de la mémoire, un goût prononcé pour la mystification, un rapport au langage qui dote la lettre d’un puissant pouvoir d’incarnation. Ces écrivains confient à leurs personnages une réflexion sur l'exil et l’acculturation, sur l’impossible coïncidence de soi à soi liée au multilinguisme, au cosmopolitisme ou à la judéité. Refusant les étiquettes identitaires, ils sont animés par une même ambition : celle de se créer eux-mêmes, de repenser l'identité patrimoniale en lui substituant une identité réflexive et dynamique. Mettant en jeu différentes formes de transgressions (filiales, génériques, ontologiques), la fiction devient ce lieu où l'écrivain fait son autoportrait sériel et où le biographique est incessamment construit et déconstruit. Le personnage romanesque se décline en autant de variantes de soi, parfois polémiques, qui permettent de faire émerger une vérité sur soi. Mais cette vérité ne peut se dire qu'entre les lignes, entre les langues et dans une écriture polyphonique. La langue elle-même devient la cachette où l'écrivain tente de redonner la parole aux disparus. / Vladimir Nabokov, Romain Gary and Philip Roth are three 20th century writers who have different geographical, cultural and theoretical backgrounds. However, their works and their conceptions of fiction share many similarities: a cosmopolite sensibility, a reflection on writing memory, a strong interest in mystification, and a specific relation to language that endows words with a strong power of incarnation. These writers have their characters voice their reflection on exile and acculturation, as well as on the impossibility of self-coincidence, in relation to their multilingualism or Jewish identity. Nabokov, Gary and Roth distrust identity labels, and therefore share the same ambition : to create their own self, to rethink patrimonial identity by replacing it with a reflexive, dynamic one. Because fiction operates different forms of transgression (filial, generic, ontological), fiction becomes a place for the writer to create a serial self-portrait, where biography is constantly constructed and deconstructed. The multi-faceted self finds its incarnation in conversely multiple characters, some of them being sometimes polemical, and it enables the surfacing of a truth on oneself. This truth can only be found “between the lines”, in-between languages and in the polyphony of writing. Language itself becomes a hiding-place where the writer tries to retrieve the voices of the departed.

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Il s’agit d’une étude des œuvres de Moacyr Scliar et de Régine Robin. Les écrits de Moacyr Scliar sont axés surtout autour de la problématique de l’immigration juive au Brésil et de l’adaptation et intégration au milieu de la société brésilienne. Il construit avec humour et légèreté des personnages souvent en conflit interne pour essayer de constituer eux-mêmes une identité composée de traces de mémoires et de la nouvelle réalité qui les entourent. C’est le cas des personnages de ses oeuvres qu’intègrent mon corpus, à savoir, Le Centaure dans le jardin et Sa majesté des indiens. Les écrits de la franco-québécoise Régine Robin comprennent plusieurs domaines de connaissance et suivent une tendance ou un courant d’écrivains québécois qui privilégient dans leurs écrits une idée de construction nationale qui n’a pas le pays comme le centre, mais un abordage identitaire qui renforce et signale l’ample diversité culturelle et ethnique qui compose le Québec. C’est ce qu’ils appellent l’écriture migrante. Notre intérêt est surtout axé sur sa production littéraire, à savoir le roman La Québécoite et son livre de contes L’immense fatigue des Pierres. Cependant, sa production en tant que théoricienne fourni des éléments complémentaires pour l’analyse de ses œuvres littéraires, comme par exemple Le roman mémoriel, Kafka, et La mémoire saturée. Régine Robin et Moacyr Scliar ont en commun le fait de créer dans leurs livres un espace intermédiaire entre les faits et la fiction, et aussi de présenter des expressions de la communauté américaine d’origine juive. De sorte que s’entremêlent, chez eux, une dimension nationale, une dimension régionale, et une dimension communautaire transnationale. / This is a study of the works of Moacyr Scliar and Régine Robin. The writing of Moacyr Scliar mainly focuses on the issue of Jewish immigration to Brazil and on the adaptation and integration into the Brazilian society. He constructs with humor and lightness characters that are often living internal conflicts, trying to constitute themselves an identity composed of traces of memories and the new reality which surrounds them. It is the case of the characters of his works that integrate my corpus, namely, the Centaur in the garden and His majesty of the Indians. The writings of the Quebec-French Régine Robin include several areas of knowledge and follow a trend or a movement of writers in Quebec who favor in their writings an idea of national construction that does not have the country as the center, but rather an identity approach which strengthens and signals the wide cultural and ethnic diversity that makes up Quebec. This is what they call the migrant writing. Our interest mainly focuses on his literary production, namely the novel La Québécoite and his storybook The immense fatigue of Stones. However, her production as a theorist provides complementary elements for the analysis of his literary works, such as The Memory Novel, Kafka, and The Saturated Memory. Régine Robin and Moacyr Scliar have in common the fact of creating in their books an intermediate space between facts and fiction, and also to present expressions of the American community of Jewish origin. In this way, are intertwined in their works a national dimension, a regional dimension and a transnational community dimension.

This research report focuses on the issues for participation in public memory projects, in the light of counter-monument critiques of audiences being ‘rendered passive’. Interviews with people who went on the 2005 March of the Living tour to Holocaust sites in Poland and then to Israel have been analysed in terms of themes and processes of meaningmaking. The written text of some of the material provided to them is also analysed. Meanings in the interviews notably occupied two discursive spaces that seem at odds with each other. The first was the discourse around what is a good way to memorialise – particularly when the memory is one of such enormity as the Holocaust. The second is the discourse around tolerance education – how do we ‘learn lessons’ from the Holocaust? The issues for heritage interpretation and tolerance education are explored.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T19:27:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 7 / Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos / A dissertação aborda o nacionalismo judaico no Rio Grande do Sul de 1945, ano que corresponde no Brasil ao término do Estado Novo e, internacionalmente, ao final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a 1952, quando foram efetivadas as relações diplomáticas entre Brasil e Israel. Durante esse período ocorreu um boom do movimento sionista em escala mundial que culminou com a criação do Estado israelense, em 1948. Tendo a história política como referência e a partir de perspectivas de análise que se complementam, o estudo articula o sionismo em nível internacional, brasileiro e sul-rio-grandense. O eixo de análise da pesquisa é ação política dos emissários estrangeiros, representantes do sionismo internacional, quando da expansão do movimento em território brasileiro, no período citado. Pelo viés das coordenadas - internacional e brasileira - e apresentando a participação de não-judeus no movimento e a interação destes com a coletividade israelita, a pesquisa alcança seu objetivo ao caracterizar as tendências político-par / This thesis focuses on the Jewish nationalism in Rio Grande do Sul from 1945 to 1952. 1945 was the year in which the Estado Novo was coming to an end in Brazil and, internationally, it corresponds to the end of World War II. 1952 was the year when the diplomatic relations between Brazil and Israel were established. During this period the Zionism movement gained worldwide strength, which culminated with the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. By using elements of political history as a reference, this study looks at Zionism at the international, Brazilian and regional level, articulating perspectives that complement each other. The analysis centers around the political action of foreign emissaries, international representatives of Zionism, in the period in which the movement was developing in the Brazilian context. By examining both the international and Brazilian perspectives and presenting the participation of non-Jews in the movement, this study analyzes the interaction of these with the Jewish communi

This bachelor’s thesis is an ethnological study with focus on examining conditions for and navigation between different subject positions in Swedish everyday life. The study problematizes the nature of Swedishness and examines the relationship between Swedishness, whiteness, and Jewishness. Who is Swedish and when is examined, and in which situations Jewishness is brought to light and made note of. The essay discusses the boundaries of the act of passing and what strategies Jews in Sweden use to navigate between Swedishness and Jewishness and adaptations to live as smooth a daily life as possible. Based on the theory derived from phenomenology and post-structuralism as well as interviews with six Jews resident in Sweden, the paper highlights the complicated ways in which norms interact and how identifications arise through deviation. Whiteness is examined in relation to Jewishness and Swedishness and appears, similarly to other social positions, depending on context, time and place. The empirical evidence shows how Jews in Sweden try to pass as (white) Swedes while at the same time trying to keep their Jewish identity. That Jewish bodies act differently and feel at home dependent on place is made clear by an account of the importance of the diasporic experience for Jewish life in Sweden.

Notre étude comparée porte sur l’oeuvre de Ilse Losa (1913-2006), Allemande installée au Portugal, et Samuel Rawet (1929-1984), Polonais immigré au Brésil, deux écrivains qui ont adopté le portugais comme langue d’écriture. Arrivés dans ces pays lusophones quelques années avant la déclaration de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, ils possèdent une origine juive commune exprimée chez leurs personnages sous la forme de conflits entre mémoire et oubli, communautarisme et intégration, tradition et performativité culturelle. En outre, leur condition de femme et d’homosexuel leur a servi d’inspiration pour la construction d’une oeuvre marquée par la lutte contre le binarisme de genre dans un contexte d’oppression dans leur terre d’accueil : l’État Nouveau salazariste (1933-1974) et la dictature militaire brésilienne (1964-1985). Ainsi, à travers leur écriture personnelle où l’identité juive et l’identité genrée constituent des questions charnières, nous pouvons penser l’exclusion de façon plus large. Ces auteurs nous fournissent donc un portrait des sociétés brésilienne et portugaise entre la fin des années 30 et le début des années 80, mettant en lumière les enjeux de pouvoir entre l’élite et le peuple. Dans une période de construction d’une identité nationale basée sur le mythe du grand empire au Portugal et l’apologie du métissage et du multiculturalisme au Brésil, Ilse Losa et Samuel Rawet montrent que la nation est toujours une narration. / Our compared study deals with the literary work of Ilse Losa (1913-2006), a German exiled in Portugal, and Samuel Rawet (1929-1984), a Polish immigrant in Brazil, which have adopted Portuguese as writing language. Having arrived in these lusophone countries a few years before the declaration of the Second World War, both share a jewish origin which is expressed in their characters in the form of conflicts between memory and forgetfulness, communitarianism and integration, tradition and cultural performativity. Moreover, their conditions of women and homosexual acted as an inspiration for the construction of a work opposing gender duality in a context of oppression in these host countries : The Salazarist New State (1933-1974) and the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). This way, through their personal writings in which the jewish identity and the gender identity are key elements, we can consider the exclusion in a broader way. These authors give us a picture of the brazilian and portuguese societies between the end of the 30’s and beginning of the 80’s, highlighting the power relations between elites and masses. During a period in which the national identity is being built on the basis of the myth of the great empire in Portugal and of multiculturalism in Brazil, Ilse Losa and Samuel Rawet show that the nation is always a narrative.

This study examines the responses of European intellectuals since the 1880s to an increasingly virulent and organized anti-Semitism in Europe, and the ways in which they sought to understand the character and origins of the hatred, and to fathom and work out the problems, terms and possibilities for Jewish identity. Focusing on the French figures Bernard Lazare and Marcel Proust from the time of the Dreyfus Affair and then on the Frankfurt School of social theory and Hannah Arendt from the period around and after the Second World War, the thesis argues that these thinkers created a common historical-psychological discourse on anti-Semitism, which attempted to confront, comprehend and explain the historically critical issues of anti-Semitism and Jewish identity. The study explores the discourse’s fundamental assumptions, insights, and arguments regarding the origins, character, and magnitude of anti-Semitism. It also analyzes its contentions concerning the contradictions, sources, and alternatives for Jewish identity. But, more, it claims that, despite their frequent perceptiveness, these figures’ interpretations of the two concerns proved limited, deficient, even deeply flawed. The thesis seeks to show that its intellectuals’ attempt to understand the twin issues was hence a failure to grasp and interpret them adequately, and to resolve them. It contends further that what impaired the authors’ engagements with anti-Semitism and Jewish selfhood were ideas that were fundamental to their thinking. These intellectual factors, moreover, connected the figures solidly to important historical contexts that they inhabited, thereby implicating the significant settings in the epistemological errors and defeats. These momentous ideas thus operated as both contextualizing and destructive forces—linking the intellectuals to their home contexts and transforming their understanding of their historic problematic into a misunderstanding. / Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2009-04-16 08:34:25.821