The Invention of a Jewish Place
Author: Ilana SancovschiAdvisor: Cristiane Rose de Siqueira Duarte
Published date: 2017
When inquiring about the existence of a "Jewish place", this work proposes a reflection on the cultural relations in the inhabited spaces. Working with the ambience concept, the research seeks to find a cultural identification in the complexity of spaces narrated by three authors of modern and contemporary Jewish literature: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Moacyr Scliar and Amos Oz. As a way of approaching the sensations and sensitivities inscribed in the spaces of literature, a methodology of analysis that we named "Imagined Walks" was developed. Such a methodology induces an experience of the ambiences by means of reading that aims an approach body-text, thus allowing the identification of elements of cultural significance repeated in the represented Jewish life spaces, thus giving rise to an idea of "Jewish Place".
