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In this article, I identify where contemporary scholarship on Jonah continues to ask enduring questions of any biblical text like dating, structure, and message. I also outline how scholars have brought contemporary approaches to the book. Finally, I suggest some points of divergence between scholarship in the late 20thand early 21stcenturies and consider how recent scholarship has treated past contributions. This survey shows that scholarship continues to grapple with questions that have long pervaded Jonah’s interpretive history. At the same time, contemporary approaches bring exciting possibilities to a book that has often resisted a monologic interpretation.

The article reveals the public positions of King Mihai I, while in exile, towards Bessarabia, as they emerge from interviews, documents, public statements, open letters and messages addressed to Romanians, in different circumstances. In this study, both published documents (public messages of King Mihai I, published in various books of interviews or memoirs about the King, newspaper articles reproducing these messages, other articles talking about royal public actions) and unpublished documents were analyzed, such as the correspondence between King Mihai I and one of the most important leaders of the Romanians in exile, Ion Rațiu, or extracts from the file on the Securitate’s pursuit of King Mihai I, in the archives of the National Council for the Study of Romanian Security Archives. The period studied is 1989-1993, when the King made many public statements about Bessarabia, which he never forgot. The themes addressed in the public communication are related to the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and its effects, the exodus of young people, the freedom to vote and to decide their own fate, respect for democracy as a whole, and the Transnistria problem. The King analyses the situation in Bessarabia licitly and spoke of European integration long before the Republic of Moldova actually embarked on this path. The study shows the King’s focus on the Bessarabian problem, his visionary approach to the European course and diplomacy, and the firmness with which he tells the historical truths and analyses their effects today.

In this essay, the author offers a testimony of his experience witnessing the genocide of the Palestinian people—his people—from Amman, Jordan, through a recounting of conversations with a friend from Gaza. Juxtaposed with reflections on the historical and topographic unity of the lands of Jordan and Palestine, the author pays tribute to the ongoing resistance of the people of Jordan, the majority of whom are descendants of displaced Palestinians from 1948 and 1967, since the genocide began. He concludes with an affirmation of the importance of October 7 for the collective present and future of the fragmented Palestinian people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1 Thess 4:14 Paul has often been understood to teach that dead believers, who have been in heaven, will return to earth with Christ at the parousia. Others understand it of believers being transported to heaven. This article proposes a fresh understanding of the passage, informed by the OT and Second Temple background of God leading his people out of the realm of death and into life in his presence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The diaries of Erika Löbl and Thea Gersten, both accounts of Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany, bear witness to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust and show how young refugees made new lives abroad while separated from family and friends. The diary was a friend, a tool of resistance and agency, a way to reflect on the past and future, and a tangible piece of home. Close reading of these texts helps us understand how young Jewish refugees narrated their experiences of persecution and survival through the double passage of emigration and adolescence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines Violeta Serrano's narrative, which depicts her experiences as a young migrant during Spain's 2008 economic crisis, through the lens of Maria Zambrano's concept of "crisis". However, this proposition is not straightforward. Disparities and a temporal gap separate the crises faced by Serrano and Zambrano, as well as the migration flows they are associated with. This raises the question: can Zambrano's concepts serve as a unifying framework for understanding autobiographical literature authored by different types of migrants, transcending traditional barriers between migration movements?" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the impact of a shift in focus from political praxis to trauma work in the context of a failed democratisation movement. It investigates the various phenomena which emerge when intellectuals, under the traumatic impact of violence and atrocities, place trauma narration at the core of their interventions. Drawing on document analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with twenty nine exiled Syrian intellectuals in Paris and Berlin who had participated in the revolutionary movement of 2011, the paper suggests that an inversion of the normative power structures pertaining to how intellectuals relate to their publics occurs when they adopt, under conditions of extreme violence and trauma, what we call a radically embedded positionality vis-à-vis 'the people'. This results in the dismantling of previous figurations of the 'militant intellectual' along with praxis-focused notions of the 'responsibility of intellectuals', ultimately undermining their ideational influence upon domestic publics and weakening their political impact and critical role within a revolutionary movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I will present a reflection that seeks to address part of the work of the Chilean writer Patricio Manns motivated by highlighting his poetics of exile. Manns is a writer whose political commitment to resistance and opposition to the dictatorship of the genocidal Augusto Pinochet, who had to face exile and clandestinity, is known. This political fact accentuates his poetics of exile not only due to the spiritual conditions but also due to the historical events that occurred in the collective sphere of Chilean society. Part of the approach to his cantological writing will be from an epistemological perspective that includes the category of the subaltern thinker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Profoundly original and deliberately shocking, innovative and puzzling at the same time, Roberto Bolaño (1953 – 2003) is now considered one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century. Born in Chile, he grew up in Mexico and then traveled across the South American continent, finally settling in Europe, in his steady attempt to establish his reputation of a poet and a novelist. His entire work represents a constant challenge to the literary critics, given the fact that he distinctively addressed some important universal issues (like human loneliness or the impossibility to establish an authentic connection and dialogue in the midst of an alienated society); but he is also famous for his particular way of meditating upon the often hidden meanings of exile in the contemporary world. His characters travel around the world as well as within themselves, in order to find their identity and to assert the truth of their own existence at the same time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inspired by Said's concept of exile, Camus' 1947 novel The Plague, and testimonies from our students, this paper explores the striking similarities between experiences of exile and the COVID-19 pandemic. Both exile and the pandemic are seen as intrusive forces causing rupture and discontinuity in one's life at the physical, psychological and socio-cultural levels. This paper demonstrates that for many Palestinians – including us and our students – the pandemic manifests what Freud termed 'repetition compulsion'. That is, many of our students interpret the detrimental and precarious impact of the pandemic as a complex form of exile, a nuanced understanding that blends a historical, communal memory of displacement with a present, universal crisis. This paper further explains that the themes of exile and displacement in Camus' The Plague provide us and our students with a focal point to examine the striking, albeit anachronistic, similarities between the pandemic caused by Israeli occupation and the COVID-19 virus. This uncanny relationship between the pandemic and exile is further substantiated by the fact that the pandemic has provided cover, or at least distraction, for the escalation of oppressive political actions, thus deepening the entrenchment of a physical and psychological 'exile' for Palestinians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Changes in the inner voice, thoughts, and feelings due to the recurrent experiences in social and cultural reality are defined as psychic restructuring (PR). Any collective trauma can drastically change a person's psyche in multiple ways. The first argument of the study is that PR happens in individuals as a result of exile, which has manifold reasons. The second argument is that first-generation older adults crave for their homeland more intensely because of their subtle memories of the left behind. The third argument is that there are metaphorical representations of exilic experiences in the art forms that would depict their inexplicable quest for PR. Finally, it suggests the possibility of constructive PR in refugees with the aid of clinically driven and standardized art-based therapies (ABT). These arguments have multicollinearity in the context of PR, which still needs to be studied. The study tries to bridge the gap or lacuna in this research arena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann (1895–1998) and Albert Eckstein (1891–1950), a pediatrician couple from Düsseldorf, had to hand in their official resignations after being declared as 'Jews' according to the laws of 1933 and 1935. Albert Eckstein accepted the offer of the Turkish government to become the head of the pediatric clinic of Ankara Hospital. Relying on a biographical approach and utilizing ego-documents, such as memoirs, letters, and travelogues at the Eckstein family archives, together with Turkish state archives, and Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann's research publications, this paper conceptualizes Erna's exile years in Turkey along gendered lines and provides an intersectional interpretation of migration. This microhistorical reconstruction acknowledges her agency and subjectivity as a high-skilled migrant woman; intertwines her life story with the larger dynamics of the migrant networks in Turkey; and brings it into dialogue with macro-level structural factors with regards to the war, the mass murder and the global movement of European Jews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the transatlantic cultural mediation performed by Italian editor, critic and political activist Nicola Chiaromonte, focusing specifically on his relationships with figures from the mid-twentieth-century U.S. cultural formation known as the New York Intellectuals. Drawing heavily on unpublished correspondence and archival materials, it highlights how Chiaromonte – who in the 1930s belonged to influential Italian and French intellectual networks, as well as to the antifascist movement 'Giustizia e Libertà' – publicly and privately transmitted political ideas forged in the debates of the Italian antifascist diaspora and the intellectual matrix of interwar Paris to leftwing 1940s New York circles associated with literary and socio-political magazines such as Partisan Review (P.R.) and politics. After exploring Chiaromonte's years as a refugee in Manhattan as a scene of formal and informal cultural mediation, it turns to his post-war role as co-editor of the Italian Congress for Cultural Freedom (C.C.F.) magazine Tempo Presente (T.P.), foregrounding this institutional role as a site of idea circulation and exchange that leveraged Chiaromonte's transnational cultural knowledge and connections. The article emphasizes the significance of interpersonal relationships not only to Chiaromonte's political vision but also as sites of transformational intellectual labour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the peculiarities of the development of a progressive prison system in England. It is noted that the prerequisites for the implementation of this system were: an increase in the number of convicts, and therefore, prisoners; lack of prisons; decentralization and inefficiency of the prison system at that time; demoralizing consequences of execution of punishments. In 1838, the main regulations for reforming the penitentiary system of England were submitted to the government. The result of the proposed reform was the formation of a progressive prison system. The beginnings of the English progressive system of execution of punishments can be found in the activities of Captain D. McConochie, who in 1840 first applied its regulations to convict labourers on Norfolk Island near Australia, where the most dangerous criminals were sent. In England itself, this system was first introduced in 1842 in Pentonville Prison. The English progressive penitentiary system provided for several stages of imprisonment: solitary confinement, which took place in special solitary cells; collective imprisonment with joint labor during the day and separation at night; parole. The system had the following characteristic features: gradualness in the severity of the punishment, which depended on the arrestee himself; individualization of execution of sentences, based on a personal daily analysis of prisoners’ attitude to the regime and work; involvement of prisoners in the provision of prison activities; comprehensibility and accessibility for each detainee; significant educational influence on prisoners, most of whom were interested in softening prison conditions; parole as the highest reward for good behavior and conscientious work. The system had significant successes and attracted the attention of specialists and the public by reducing recidivism and a diverse set of educational measures. It also found its embodiment in the modern penitentiary system of England, in which the execution of prison sentences is organized according to a progressive system, which provides for solitary confinement with subsequent transfer to a general cell, where the regime of detention has three degrees. One of the main elements of organising and executing punishments related to deprivation of liberty is the classification and division of prisoners into four categories. According to these categories, there are four regimes of detention of prisoners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the polyvocal and inherently contested arena of Palestinianness as a moral place of belonging, for which I suggest the term "home" as an anthropological category denoting affective places of belonging for a given social group. This minimalistic definition is intended as a heuristic site from which to explore modes of inhabiting a moral destination. The ways in which Palestinianness is conceived and negotiated among refugees and other Palestinian communities living outside of today's Palestinian territories are thus understood as processes of home-making. In this respect, the article considers the definition of a "homeland" in relation to Palestinian experiences and expressions of displacement and discusses to what extent the terms diaspora and exile characterize the Palestinian dispersion. It suggests that these experiences and expressions highlight the importance of affect and problematize a fitting subjunctive definition of home as an anthropological category. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this dialogue, the authors discuss what Latin America has meant to Jewish immigrants, particularly during the first half of the twentieth century, and what place Jews and Judaism occupy nowadays in this part of the world. While trying to establish some general traits, the authors focus specific historical and chronological contexts, such as late 19th. Century Argentina or Brazil in the 1940s. The importance of such contemporary issues as globalisation, neo-liberalism and the end of ideologies in Jewish Latin-American life and future are also discussed. The utopian projections connected to Latin America, once seen as a kind of paradise in the imagination of Jewish immigrants, gradually has given way to a more realistic and skeptical assessment of reality, while the increasing importance of economical power in the contemporary seems to determine, more than anything else, the future of Jewish presence in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews recent books by Jewish thinkers that critique the idea of a Jewish state from the perspective of Jewish exile. It outlines two main approaches. The first, secular approach, rejects the Jewish state in favor of a secular state, seeing Judaism itself as the problem, whether arising from biblical violence or collective identity. The second, post-secular approach, rejects the Jewish state as secular, and finds resources in Jewish tradition for an alternative political vision centered on exile, understood as resistance to sovereignty and violence. This article argues that Jewish opposition to the Jewish state aims to limit sovereignty, integrate Jews into the Middle East space, and recover an exilic Jewish tradition of social ethics and pluralism. The idea of exile thus provides resources for envisioning decolonization and coexistence in Israel–Palestine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The verb שׁמד is a prominent verb of destruction that appears throughout the Hebrew Bible (HB). It is well represented in both Dtn-Dtr and the Prophetic Books. Many verses related to the conquest of Canaan and the exile feature this verb. Relevant scholarly literature also indicates that some elements of its meaning and usage remain obscure. All this makes it worthy of investigation. The last few decades have seen a rise in the utilisation of cognitive linguistics (CL) for the exegesis of the HB. A review of scholarly literature did not identify any robust attempt at utilising CL to gain insight into the meaning of שׁמד. In this study, frame semantics (FS) along with several other CL methodologies are used to gain greater insight into the semantic force of שׁמד in the HB. Three major discoveries were made. (1) While there usually are severe fatalities, all-encompassing fatality (i.e. annihilation) is not at the semantic core of שׁמד. Rather, decimation is the idea. (2) The destruction envisaged by שׁמד is conceptualised as removal from a location, whether dispossession or extermination. (3) Some insight was gained into the obscurity of when שׁמד takes במות as an object. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This study traverses the fields of CL, Semitics, Biblical Studies, and Biblical Theology. It utilises CL to gain greater insight into a Hebrew verb. This insight enabled more accurate exegesis of the HB. These exegetical findings have implications for Biblical Theology, especially divine judgement and the conquest of Canaan.

This essay examines issues of displacement, exile, and non-belonging, and their impact on a subject’s sense of identity, in three novels by South American women writers: Ana Maria Machado (Brazil), Griselda Gambaro (Argentina), and Alejandra Costamagna (Chile). Furthermore, the essay discusses how memory and postmemory are fundamental elements in narratives in which the narrator and/or protagonist set out to write and rewrite self-identity, family and national histories.

Ionescu-Ionesco, Voice of an Exile? Proposal for a Theoretical Rereading. In this paper, we propose a different reading of Eugène Ionesco’s exile by drawing from a selection of texts from the 1930s and afterwards. As our purpose is to challenge the prevailing discourse surrounding the topic, we have opted to focus on critical and theoretical elements rather than biographical details. We keep in mind that the author’s contributions and the research on his work are two intertwined discourses. In post-1989 Romania, Ionesco is widely regarded as one of the leading literary figures of the Romanian exile. It is our opinion that his exiled status has not been sufficiently investigated, and our aim is to demonstrate that prudence and close reading could uncover some striking nuances that could lead scholars to the solution of a central question: Should Ionescu-Ionesco be regarded as an exile or rather as an expatriate? Ionescu-Ionesco, vocea unui exilat? Propunere pentru o relectură teoretică. În articolul de față propunem o lectură diferită a exilului lui Eugène Ionesco bazându-ne pe o selecție de texte din anii 1930 și de mai târziu. Întrucât scopul nostru este să chestionăm discursul predominant legat de subiect, am ales să ne concentrăm mai curând asupra elementelor critice și teoretice decât asupra detaliilor biografice. Ținem cont de faptul că contribuțiile autorului și cercetarea relativă la opera sa sunt două discursuri întrețesute. În România de după 1989, Ionesco este îndeobște considerat drept o figură literară marcantă a exilului românesc. Opinia noastră este aceea că statutul său de exilat nu a fost suficient investigat, iar obiectivul nostru este să demonstrăm că prudența și lectura atentă pot dezvălui nuanțe remarcabile: ar trebui Ionescu-Ionesco să fie tratat drept un exilat sau mai degrabă drept un expatriat? Cuvinte-cheie: Eugen Ionescu – Eugène Ionesco, exil, expatriat, ideologie, receptare Article history: Received 21 January 2024; Revised 26 March 2024; Accepted 04 June 2024; Available online 25 June 2024; Available print 30 June 2024