O presente trabalho apresenta um estudo da cultura ídiche através do cantar e do seu significado para os imigrantes e descendentes dessa vertente cultural no Brasil. O cantar ídiche foi um dos elos que esses indivíduos mantiveram com suas raízes. Esses vínculos foram investigados através de entrevistas e relatos de suas memórias. O objetivo desta tese foi retratar o passado vivo de um grupo cultural que sempre cultivou formas de expressão musical no seu cotidiano e seu significado. O resultado do trabalho propõe uma reflexão sobre a importância do cantar na preservação dessa cultura musical e sobre questões relativas à identidade judaica brasileira. Os gêneros musicais ídiches acalentam a saudade velada e simbólica que os imigrantes e seus descendentes sentem do território evocativo do ídiche. O cancioneiro ídiche traz, no plano coletivo e individual, uma herança apreciada de forma universal e crescente, por diversas esferas culturais. / This work presents both a study about the Yiddish culture through singing and its meaning to the Jewish immigrants and their cultural descendants in Brazil. Yiddish singing has been one of the common bonds these individuals chose to stick to their roots; bonds which have been investigated through interviews and also by listening to peoples memories. The aim of this thesis is to portray the memorable past of a cultural group that has kept ways of musical expression in their daily lives. The results of this work poses both a reflection on the importance of singing to keep this musical culture and also on matters related to the Jewish- Brazilian identity. Yiddish musical genres nourish a veiled and symbolic nostalgia these immigrants descendants have of their Yiddish evocative territory. Moreover, Yiddish songs carry individual and collective cultural heritage which is increasingly appreciated worldwide.

Der Artikel setzt sich mit den Erzählungen des Maassebuches auseinander, welche der Universalgelehrte Johann Christian Schöttgen (1687-1751) in seiner Zeitschrift "Der Rabbiner" publiziert. In seiner Auseinandersetzung mit der jiddischen Literatur befindet sich Schöttgen in einer Reihe mit anderen christlichen Hebraisten, wie zum Beispiel Christoph Helwig (Helvicus, 1581-1617) und Johann Christian Wagenseil (1633-1705). / The article deals with the stories of the Maasebook, which printed in the journal "Der Rabbiner" by the scholar Johann Christian Schoettgen (1687-1751). In his work on the Yiddish literature Schoettgen ranks with other Christian Hebraists like Christoph Helwig (Helvicus, 1581-1617) and Johann Christian Wagenseil (1633-1705).

This thesis explores the limits of fictional language by studying the work of Jewish American writer-critics, novelists who significantly engaged with literary criticism, and critics who experimented with the novel or short fiction. These writer-critics all believed in Literature: they believed that literature could effect social change and educate the masses; or they believed in literature as an art-form, one that exposed the myths underlying American society, or that revealed something fundamental about the human condition. Yet it is because they believed so stridently in the concept of Literature that they turned to non-fiction. Writing fiction exposed problems that Literature could not resolve. They describe being haunted by “preoccupations” that they could not exhaust in fiction alone. They apologetically refer to their critical texts as “by-products” of their creative writing. Writer-critics were forced to decide what the limits of fiction were, and they adopted other types of writing to supplement these unexpected gaps in fiction's power. This dissertation contains four chapters and an introduction. The introduction establishes the methodological difficulties in writing about author-critics, and introduces a set of principles to guide the study. Chapter 1 approaches Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky (1917). I argue that many of the novel's difficulties result from Cahan's desire to present the way that ideology shades our understanding of reality while minimizing direct narratorial intrusions. Chapter 2 studies how politics affected the work of Mike Gold, Moishe Nadir, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. In all three writers, literature emerges as a kind of ersatz-politics, a space for the dispossessed to imagine the political. In the end, the political novel only reinforces the fictionality. Chapter 3 is a study of Leslie Fiedler's problematic novel, The Second Stone. While critics have seen the novel as a kind of game, I propose reading the novel as an earnest expression of Fiedler's vision of literature as a conversation. Chapter 4 turns to Cynthia Ozick and Susan Sontag. A cumulative reading of their fiction and criticism shows the deep twinning of their fiction and critical thought. For both writers true knowledge comes only through the imagination. / Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

This thesis discusses the role of the "false Messiah" in modern Yiddish Literature. / The figure of the Messiah in Jewish religious imagination signifies the prophetic yearning for redemption at the end of days, but it also provoked hopes in a strong leader who will bring about social and political redemption. Based on historical models, literature from the twelfth to the twentieth century addressed these "false Messiahs" and in the modern period used them to define and illustrate contemporary catastrophe. / Shlomo Molcho by American Yiddish poet Aaron Glanz-Leyeles and Prince Reuveni by Soviet Yiddish author David Bergelson are two twentieth century poetic historic dramas based on two messianic figures of the sixteenth century. These two modern works are compared in relation to the respective authors' life and times, political and aesthetic outlook, and dramatic powers. The comparison shows the usefulness of the "false Messiah" in dramatizing and expressing difficult contemporary issues.

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Les littératures yiddish et hébraïque modernes sont étroitement liées par une histoire commune et partagent également de multiples traits stylistiques et thématiques. Or, une différence importante peut être remarquée quant à l’usage des pseudonymes dans les deux langues. Dans la littérature yiddish moderne, la pseudonymie est très importante, aussi bien du point de vue quantitatif que qualitatif, et une grande partie des plus importants auteurs yiddish sont connus principalement sous leur pseudonyme, alors que dans la littérature hébraïque moderne les noms de plume restent un phénomène relativement marginal. La présente recherche analyse la pseudonymie dans les deux littératures, dans le but d’expliquer cet écart. Nous commençons par une analyse des modes de construction des pseudonymes pour en constituer une typologie générale. Par la suite, nous nous concentrons sur les pseudonymes « durables », c'est-à-dire ceux qui accompagnent les auteurs sur le long terme et façonnent leur image publique, pour décrire en détail dans quelles circonstances et de quelles manières ils sont utilisés. Enfin, nous utilisons les informations recueillies pour démontrer que la pseudonymie est un phénomène social, et pour isoler les facteurs sociaux et historiques qui ont conduit à l’adoption de la pseudonymie comme l’une des « traditions inventées » de la littérature yiddish moderne. / Modern Yiddish and Hebrew literatures are closely connected by a common long history, sharing many stylistic and thematic features. However, both literatures significantly differ in their use of pseudonyms. In Yiddish literature, authors’ pseudonyms appear rather frequently, and a significant number of the most important writers are known mainly in their pseudonyms, while in modern Hebrew literature pen names remained a relatively marginal occurrence. This research analyses pseudonymity in both literatures in order to explain this discrepancy. In the first chapter, the various patterns used in building pseudonyms are analysed, so to establish a general typology of the phenomenon. Subsequently, I focus on the "lasting" pseudonyms, namely those that accompany authors for a long time, shaping and determining their public image. In the second chapter I describe in detail under which circumstances and in what ways the "lasting" pseudonyms were created and used. Finally, in the last part the information analysed previously is utilised, clarifying that pseudonymity is actually a social phenomenon, and defining the social and historical factors that led to the adoption of pseudonymity as one of the "invented traditions" of modern Yiddish literature.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:00:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseVS_DISSERT.pdf: 2292771 bytes, checksum: 12b12a998294d33c36dd041392aedfde (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-20 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This dissertation has its main goal on signing the modern Comic Books` narrative development aspects. It goes from its relationship with performing arts, specifically with the Yiddish (Jewish theatre). The research was done from the Will Eisner?s work analysis. He is a cartoonist and has a wide and influent in his area. Moreover he clearly reflects the similarities between Comic Books and Theatre. In this study was adopted the qualitative methodology on historic-comparative procedure through bibliography. The study indicates that, although their media and distinct principles, the Comic Books and Yiddish Theatre have close influence relationship considering their narrative solutions / Esta disserta??o tem como principal objetivo a sinaliza??o de aspectos do desenvolvimento narrativo das hist?rias em quadrinhos modernas (HQs) a partir das suas rela??es com as artes c?nicas, mais especificamente com o teatro i?diche (teatro judaico). A pesquisa foi feita partindo da an?lise da obra do quadrinhista Will Eisner, autor que possui um trabalho amplo e influente na sua ?rea de atua??o. Al?m disso, o autor tamb?m reflete claramente nas suas obras as tang?ncias de aspectos narrativos existentes entre HQs e teatro. A metodologia adotada para este estudo foi qualitativa, com m?todo de procedimento hist?rico comparativo, atrav?s de refer?ncias informacionais. O estudo indica que, apesar de serem formas midi?ticas a princ?pio distintas, as HQs t?m com o teatro i?diche uma estreita rela??o de influ?ncias, no que tange as suas solu??es narrativas

O presente trabalho apresenta um estudo da cultura ídiche através do cantar e do seu significado para os imigrantes e descendentes dessa vertente cultural no Brasil. O cantar ídiche foi um dos elos que esses indivíduos mantiveram com suas raízes. Esses vínculos foram investigados através de entrevistas e relatos de suas memórias. O objetivo desta tese foi retratar o passado vivo de um grupo cultural que sempre cultivou formas de expressão musical no seu cotidiano e seu significado. O resultado do trabalho propõe uma reflexão sobre a importância do cantar na preservação dessa cultura musical e sobre questões relativas à identidade judaica brasileira. Os gêneros musicais ídiches acalentam a saudade velada e simbólica que os imigrantes e seus descendentes sentem do território evocativo do ídiche. O cancioneiro ídiche traz, no plano coletivo e individual, uma herança apreciada de forma universal e crescente, por diversas esferas culturais. / This work presents both a study about the Yiddish culture through singing and its meaning to the Jewish immigrants and their cultural descendants in Brazil. Yiddish singing has been one of the common bonds these individuals chose to stick to their roots; bonds which have been investigated through interviews and also by listening to peoples memories. The aim of this thesis is to portray the memorable past of a cultural group that has kept ways of musical expression in their daily lives. The results of this work poses both a reflection on the importance of singing to keep this musical culture and also on matters related to the Jewish- Brazilian identity. Yiddish musical genres nourish a veiled and symbolic nostalgia these immigrants descendants have of their Yiddish evocative territory. Moreover, Yiddish songs carry individual and collective cultural heritage which is increasingly appreciated worldwide.

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