In this study, references to mothers in certain positive and negative circumstances some Sephardic, Turkish, Italian proverbs idioms that depict the concept of mother will be analyzed. Fear unhappiness as emotions, joy love emotions cultures observed within framework Cognitive Metaphor Theory Lakoff Johnson. Thus, study reveal is person who reconciles members a family, alienates all fears, love...

In this paper we deal with the language of Sephardic Jews, Judeo-Spanish, from perspective sociolinguistics, emphasizing facets necessary for maintenance. The general aim is to analyze presence and role in majority minority social communities contexts Balkans Israeli territory, while specific examine which domains use were crucial its maintenance within society. ultimate goal research draw atte...

The Hara, or ghetto, is a place that distinguishes its inhabitants from other religious and cultural groups, acting as a spatial indicator of their difference. When Foucault’s theory of heterotopia is applied, the Hara becomes a hybrid, a place simultaneously of crisis and of deviation. In Albert Memmi’s La statue de sel, the protagonist experiences the Hara as antagonistic, or as a dystopia. I...

While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality, empirical literature has failed to uncover any such robust relationship. Here we take yet another look at this issue arguing first, that prevailing ideology may be an important determinant of inequality and, second, that the democratization effect “works through” ideology. In societies...

Is classical tragedy contingent upon a Greco-Roman sense of morality? Or can tragedy exist within a Judeo-Christian universe as well? Literary critic Northrop Frye’s theory of high-mimetic tragedy inherits distinctions that Aristotle draws between tragedy and comedy in the Poetics. As a brief philological excursion will demonstrate, the binary distinctions upon which Aristotle builds his tragic...