Representações da judeidade em Noemi Jaffe

Abstract

The theme of this study refers to the work of Noemi Jaffe, a contemporary Brazilian writer of Jewish descent, still little known in the Brazilian literary and academic scene. This set of texts is presented based on the theme of Jewishness as a key to reading. To this end, it discusses how Jewry is expressed in this writing, considering the hypothesis that Jewish influences are present in the recurrence of certain themes and in the writer's unique look at reality. Therefore, the concept of Jewishness is approached in the light of Memmi (1975), Sartre (1995), Oz and Oz-Salzberger (2015) and Flusser (2014). The themes highlighted in the work of Noemi Jaffe, which confirm the presence of a “Jewish side”, are contextualized from the perspective of Igel (1997), Waldman (1975), Fuks (2000) and Seligmann-Silva (2018). A brief biobibliography of the writer is also presented, to then analyze how Jewish themes are approached in the writer's works. Jaffe reinforces the relationship with the Jewish tradition by addressing topics such as the memory of Shoah, Jewish exile and the stigma of foreigners. At other times, she chooses to build her own image of God, rewriting the biblical narratives and eliminating the oppressive character of many of these texts.