L’ebrea errante. Uso popolare della Megillat Ester a Roma dopo Shoah e Liberazione

Davide Artico

doi:10.18778/8220-877-1

Keywords: L’art de vivre, L’art de survivre, L’art de revivre, Philologie Romane de Łódź, pandémie, histoire de la littérature

Published: August 23, 2022

Categories: Foreign language studies, Literary Studies, Open Access

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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 example
is 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 the
extra-literary actuality.

Davide Artico, University of Wrocław

Davide Artico è titolare di Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale italiana (2017), è dottore di
ricerca in Storia contemporanea (Torino 2004) e dottore di ricerca in Discipline umanistiche
a indirizzo letterario (Wrocław 2007). Ha pubblicato tre monografie ed oltre quaranta
articoli in collettanee e riviste scientifiche in Polonia, Italia, Germania, Slovenia e Stati Uniti.
Da 23 anni insegna al Dipartimento di Lingue e letterature romanze dell’Università di
Breslavia. È stato relatore o controrelatore di oltre 50 tesi di laurea.

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Artico, Davide. 2022. “L’ebrea Errante. Uso Popolare Della Megillat Ester a Roma Dopo Shoah E Liberazione”. In L’art De Vivre, De Survivre, De Revivre. Approches littéraires. Le 50e Anniversaire Des études Romanes à l’Université De Łódź, edited by Magdalena Koźluk and Anita Staroń, 403-12. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-877-1.30.