Esther

1997 · réf. 24699 — Paris: Publisud 1997. First edition. Softcover. g. Octavo. 605 6pp. Original pictorial wrappers. For "transmission" Esther Benbassa coordinator of this collective work means routes contents methods materials delivery systems to ensure the continuity of identity knowledge practices Jewish memory. As the "passages" are all types of bridges built between the Jewish world and outside but also between the different poles and components of the Jewish world men and women educated and lower classes Ashkenazim and Sephardim East and West and that ensure the movement of people the fermentation of ideas: translation language contact crypto-Judaism universalizing ideologies Enlightenment Romanticism populism nationalism entering the Jewish world but also influences the fertilizing Jewish non-Jewish societies. They are also and finally men and women in the margins: prostitutes homosexuals proselytes. If the transmission is a matter of body and sex it is also a matter of text interpretation translation reading and rereading of texts writing and rewriting of history a matter of words speeches of verb and orality when the text disappears business traffic transfer dialectic between continuity and discontinuity business policy representations memorials business education business in brief geography and weather. This collection of articles says Benbassa is "like the memory that feeds the ambition and brings together various practitioners and theorists of studies on the Jews of the younger generation. " This means that the list of participants is long and cosmopolitan as the community of specialists in the field has expanded in recent years. To avoid favoring one or insulting to others I will simply say that each full or nearly captured the attention and deserves comment. Ambitious no claim to completeness the project has delivered an exciting book to be savored piece by piece taking his time. Minor age-toning and creasing on wrappers. Text in French. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. Publisud unknown