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SAMBATIÓN
Jewish Studies From Latin America
Buenos Aires, September 2006-Elul 5767
Dear Sirs:
Sambatión is an academic magazine of Jewish
studies from Latin America. Its purpose is to
reflect semi-annually, the interests and
initiatives that are generated in this geography
in the area of the Jewish studies, in the
different aspects of the Social Sciences and Human Studies.
Its name Sambation comes from the mythical
river, where, and according to the Jewish
Tradition, the Ten Tribes crossed before getting
lost. Nowadays, and thru these pages, this symbol
re-appears in order to offer us a glimpse, and to
make their contribution regarding the Jewishness of this part of the world.
We maintain Academic Exchanges with the ISEDET
(Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios
Teológicos) and the Seminario Rabínico
Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer (Buenos Aires).
Sambation publishes contributions from the main
researchers in Latin America and the world, with
a strong orientation towards the local
production, without taking into account their origins or faith.
Its sections intend to mark a path in the
investigation of Jewishness in Latin America,
through the prism that reflects Latin-American particularity.
We would like to invite you to subscribe to our publication.
These are the specifications:
Name: Sambatión
Frequency: semiannual
Nº of pages: approximately 200
Subjects: studies on Jewishness from Latin
America. It includes summaries in English and Spanish
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Sambatión
EDITOR: Ariel Korob (ISEDET-Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires)
DIRECTOR: María Gabriela Mizraje (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Publishing Committee
Victoria Kandel (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Javier Pelakoff (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Fernando Fischmann (PhD Indiana University)
Internacional Board
Pablo Andiñach (ISEDET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Adrián Herbst (Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Diana Sperling, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Daniel Fainstein (Universidad Hebraica), México.
Ari Bursztein (University of Haifa), Haifa, Israel.
Leonardo Senkman (Hebrew University), Jerusalem, Israel.
Paola Di Cori (Roma), Italia.
ABSTRACTS Nº 1
María Gabriela Mizraje
The Crossroads as Rhetoric: Germán Rozenmachers
Fictions of Identity Pages 17-42
The literary production of Germán Rozenmacher
(1936-1971) is dated, both in the form and
content that ranges from Neorrealism to the
rewriting of canonical texts, and in giving voice
to the rebellious descendents of Jewish
immigrants born in Argentina. A thorough
appraisal of his ouvre, which considers the
dialog between text and historical context,
highlights the path followed by Rozenmacher as he
acutely experienced the need for self definition.
Rozenmachers work shows both the recurrent
construction of a Jewish and Argentine idendity
as well as a precise and poetic prose, which
voices the feelings of uprootedness,
assimilation, and betrayal. The intersection of
inherited religious beliefs and political
engagement led to the clash of the present with
the past, apparent both in the authors lived
experience and in his literary production.
A defining but only partially salvational formula
posited by his work synthesizes apparently
irreconcialiable features. In addition to
focusing on previously lost or unknown
Rozenmacher texts, this essay focuses on
variations of the authors synthesis as they
appear in different works of this writer of the 1960s.
Fernando Fischman
"Not Religious, but Traditionalists": An Approach
to the Notion of "Tradition" among Argentine
Jews
Pages 43-58
Together with the great immigration process at
the end of the nineteenth century and the early
twentieth century, Jewish immigrants established
an important community in Argentina. As a
consequence of the process of secularization that
Jews had been going through before the emigration
from Europe, and the predominant attitudes with
respect to religious practices in the local
context, the Jewish Argentine community was from
its inception, mainly laicist. Starting in the
mid-twentieth century, the arrival of religious
movements from the United States of America
brought about transformations in the community´s
secularism. This article characterizes the
generation of children of those immigrants who
established a laicist community and determines
their conceptualization of religious practices in
order to provide an accurate description of the
views on religion that preceded the flourishing
of new religious movements. With that aim, verbal
interactions extracted from interviews are
analyzed focusing mainly on the semantic variation of the term tradition.
Javier Pelacoff
"Imperio" Strikes Back. Identity References and
Collective Action in a Recovered Pizzería
Pages
60-78
The takover and self-management of the pizzeria
Imperio has certain characteristics which make it
a peculiar case regarding the experience of
recovering companies. First, unlike most of the
ramaining take over and self management
experiences, this is not a factory, but a drinks
and food store continually visited by people who
interact with those workers in charge of the
takeover process. It is located in the main
business area of the neigbourhood of Villa Crespo
(in the intersection between Corrientes Avenue
and R. Scalabrini Ortiz). All the developments
that took place in order to provide a solution to
the workers and to prevent the premises from
being closed down, were highly approved within
the neighbourhood, as well as media coverage.
Consequently, this process triggered by the
workers of Imperio intertwined diverse social
actors whose intervention power is related to
official and non-official instances at different levels.
Adrian Javier Herbst
Circumcision in Old Judaism and
Christianity
Pages 80-110
This article analizes the evolution of the
concept of circumcision in Judaism and in Old
Christianity. In order to compare how it evolved
in both of the religions, it focuses on the
ritual´s internal process in each of them. The
comparison shows that the same concepts were
taken into practice by means of different acts,
and that similar acts represent different
philosophical concepts. Judaism looked for
different hermeneutics in order to justify the
transcendence of circumcision while Christianity
used the same tools in order to prove its
nullity. The article also analyzes some central
concepts that have been forgotten with the
passage of time, but that have left traces in the
Mohel´s (circumcissor´s) blessing.
Pablo R. Andiñach
Preface to Liberation. On Exodus
1:1-7
Pages 111-120
This is an introduction to the Book of Exodus in
the context of Pentateuch as a global work. It
includes a translation into Spanish and
criticizes current translations that delete from
the text the Mothers´ memories. In the same way,
it compares the different old versions of the
text (specifically the LXX) with the Masoretic
version. The commentary focuses on the literary
characteristics of these verses, which are seen
as a transition between the Book of Genesis and
the narration of the exodus itself. A proposal of
the sitz im leben is included, the historical
context in which this text gets its full meaning,
and along the same line it analizes its symbolism
and that of its components (with number seven and
its multiples and that of the multiplication of
the number of members of the children of Israel out of the Promised Land ).
Ari Bursztein
Opposing Interpretations to the Philosophy of
Maimonides in Modern Times Pages 121-140
This article analyzes some of the interpretations
that have been done of the texts of the
philosopher Maimonides (Spain, 1135-Fostat,
1204), by emphasizing on the diversity of
scholars that have taken possession of the author
and read the same texts, although making
contradictory readings of them. The selection of
the scholars is emphasized, as well as on the
diversity of readings in fields such as
philosophy of religion, political philosophy and
education philosophy. It is proposed, as a
conclusion, a hypothesis about the reason for these differences.
J. Severino Croatto
The Seventh Day Rest. Divine Model for Sabbath
(Genesis 2: 2-3) Page 141-154
This chapters studies Genesis 2, 2-3, in order to
get to an understanding of its meaning in the
diasporic context in which it was
written. Certain philological and literary
aspects are highlighted. The author concludes
that this text it is a rereading of Babylonian
myths that Jews resignify under the light of
their own theological needs and conceptions. The
appropriation of the discourse of the dominant
regime is, from this viewpoint, a tool of the
minorities with which they respond creatively to
new contexts and from which, far from accepting
the imposed paradigms, they start from their own,
in order to preserve their identity.
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