L’ebrea errante. Uso popolare della "Megillat" Ester a Roma dopo Shoah e Liberazione
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Artico, Davide [1]
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[1] University of Wrocław
University of Wrocław
Breslavia, Polonia
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- Localización: L'art de vivre, de survivre, de revivre. Approches littéraires: 50e anniversaire des études romanes à l’Université de Łódź / coord. por Magdalena Kozluk, Anita Staron, 2022, ISBN 978-83-8220-877-1, págs. 403-412
- Idioma: italiano
- Títulos paralelos:
- The Wandering Jewess: Post-Holocaust Popular Use of the Scroll of Esther in Rome
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Resumen
The paper main theme is Esther in Purim parodies. As a study case, the Jewish community in Rome is taken into consideration. In spite of the relatively small numbers of Holocaust victims among the Italian Jews, the traumatic memories of persecution were well present in the survivors’ awareness. In the early post-war years, they felt a pressing need to pass on their knowledge of the Holocaust to the younger. Apart from academic papers and literary works of import, a number of popular texts appeared. One exampleis a version of the Tale of Purim written around 1950. The narration carries on the Italian tradition of Aggadah-style literature, and its language makes it one of the latest documents featuring idioms of the now forgotten Jewish-Roman dialect. In the tale, the Holocaust is referred to by equaling Hitler to the persecutor of the Jews as of Megillath Esther. In that fashion, Esther as a literary character wanders from the ancient religious discourse to theextra-literary actuality.
