A memória coletiva e a construção da identidade em famílias da Sociedade Israelita de Ribeirão Preto

Changes in society and the current acceleration of historical time lead to a impulse and cohesion with the past, to root of the origins, seeking identity clues contained in this collective past.The phenomena of globalization seem to lead to a need for rootedness and continuity; these needs are filled by the memory.From the perspective of Maurice Halbwachs memory has both an individual and a collective character, being partly shaped by family and social groups.It reveals both aspects of personal and social identity and points which place individuals and groups occupied in society.The Jewish tradition is the tradition of memory by excellence and the Jewish people ́s history illustrates the mechanisms of memory and remembrance.In this tradition rituals and accounts are channels that transmit memory through the ages.The aim of this research was to study how members and relatives from Jewish community live the collective memory and what it means in their everyday lives, in order to apprehend the process of individual identity construction.We interviewed 13 people from five different families, descendants of Jews who immigrated to Brazil.The contact was provided by the Israeli Society of Ribeirão Preto.To interview, we used the oral history method, a linear and individual narrative of what the participants considered significant.In this method, the memory is a way of historical evidence and should be considered as such.Considering that in memory people build a sense of the past, reflection occupies a key place to resignification this past remembered.The interviews were taped and transcribed, are presented in full.Participants are categorized in groups by family and parentage.Family 1: Maria (daughter), Fernando (grandson) and Calebe (grandson); Family 2: Patricia (daughter) and Iracy (granddaughter); Family 3: Antônio (son), Josy (granddaughter) and Alex (grandson); Family 4: Vânia (daughter) and Talita (granddaughter); Family 5: Zélia (daughter), Daniel (grandson) and Raquel (granddaughter).The names are fictitious to preserve their identity.In the interviews we noticed a wealth of diversity and similarity: they are people from the same family or different families, who realize and elaborate their families experience in different, particular, complementary and sometimes similar ways, which enriches the analysis and encourages reflection, serving as a model for some aspects of life.Also realize a process of identity construction: need for tell or silence; how they face traumatic events; how preserve or not religion and traditions; changes over the generations; the relationship with the work and the medium in which they live; values inherited and transmitted to the next generations, among other aspects that emerged in the narratives.The concept of collective memory illuminated the way we look into the participants and their accounts.Enabled us to observe what became from the past in the group studied and what the group made with the past.More than conclusions or assumptions, we caution that the interviews have countless content to be explored, and only some of these aspects were approached in this study

Aesthetics · Art · Collective identity · Collective memory · Humanities · Jewish identity · Judaism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy

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