Agenda

Jueus, de Miquel de Palol. Un drama medieval... i contemporani?

Lecture by Manuel Forcano

Wednesday, June 17,

Institut d'Estudis Nahmànides

The series of conferences The judaism and the dramatic arts will offer an approach to the relationship of Judaism with artistic and dramatic expression, both from the position of a Jewish author, as from the projection that the works treated give to concrete aspects of Judaism.

In this lecture we will approach the perspective that Miquel de Palol had of the Jewish history of the city, but also the perception and judgment of the Jews on the part of Christian society of his time. The play Jews is a drama set in the medieval Jewish quarter of Girona, but which is perfectly extrapolable, for its content and message, to those difficult times in which it took form and strength, in a whole convulsed Europe, the spectre of Nazism, of totalitarianism and intolerance.

Dramatized reading of fragments of Miquel de Palol’s work by Helena Martinell.

Manuel Forcano is a doctor in Semitic philology, a Hebraist, a translator and a poet. Until 2004, he was a professor at the University of Barcelona. From 2004 to 2009 he was Head of Documentation and Research at the Jordi Savall International Ancient Music Center. Currently Vice-president of the National Council for Arts and Culture.

Helena Martinell is an actress and singer, and one of the first figures in Girona in the field of Sephardic song.

Free entrance

Organized by: Institute of Nahmanides Studies (Patronat Call de Girona) and Ferrater Mora Chair of Contemporary Thought (University of Girona. Address: Sant Llorenç street no number