«Siendo yo hebrea, señor»: una lectura de La reina Ester de Felipe Godínez en clave conversa

En el año 1917, en la pequeña población de Belmonte, en Cova de Beira, Portugal, fueron descubiertos los restos de lo que seguramente puede ser considerada la última comunidad de criptojudíos o marranos portugueses. Esta comunidad, que data del siglo XII, es un ejemplo vivo de la transmisión secreta y oral de los fundamentos de la religión judía, de sus preceptos, costumbres y festividades, del desesperado intento por mantener viva la llama oculta de una fe ancestral, en un contexto decididamente hostil, y ello a lo largo de más de cinco siglos

Ultrastructural Distribution of the 7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit in Rat Hippocampus

Acetylcholine (ACh) is an important neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain; it is implicated in arousal, learning, and other cognitive functions. Recent studies indicate that nicotinic receptors contribute to these cholinergic effects, in addition to the established role of muscarinic receptors. In the hippocampus, where cholinergic involvement in learning and memory is particularly well documented, 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits (7 nAChRs) are highly expressed, but their precise ultrastructural localization has not been determined. Here, we describe the results of immunogold labeling of serial ultrathin sections through stratum radiatum of area CA1 in the rat. Using both anti-7 nAChR immunolabeling and -bungarotoxin binding, we find that 7 nAChRs are present at nearly all synapses in CA1 stratum radiatum, with immunolabeling present at both presynaptic and postsynaptic elements. Morphological considerations and double immunolabeling indicate that GABAergic as well as glutamatergic synapses bear 7 nAChRs, at densities approaching those observed for glutamate receptors in CA1 stratum radiatum. Postsynaptically, 7 nAChRs often are distributed at dendritic spines in a perisynaptic annulus. In the postsynaptic cytoplasm, immunolabeling is associated with spine apparatus and other membranous structures, suggesting that 7 nAChRs may undergo dynamic regulation, with insertion into the synapse and subsequent internalization. The widespread and substantial expression of 7 nAChRs at synapses in the hippocampus is consistent with an important role in mediating and/or modulating synaptic transmission, plasticity, and neurodegeneration

¿Por qué el mundo hispánico?

En el presente trabajo nos preguntamos acerca de las motivaciones que impulsan a centenares y aun miles de investigadores en el mundo a abrazar con entusiasmo y dedicación el mundo hispánico. Intentamos ofrecer algunas respuestas que de modo alguno agotan el abanico de posibles razones para la elección del mundo hispánico como objeto de estudio e investigación. El hispanismo constituye un campo intelectual que destaca por su inmensa pluralidad, dada su diversidad cultural, racial, religiosa, lingüística e ideológica. Estimamos que el hispanismo constituye así un ejemplo paradigmático de lo que podría designarse como puente lingüístico e intelectual entre regiones y culturas cercanas-distantes, un diálogo humano polifónico, configurado por el cúmulo de historias y culturas que conforman el universo hispánico. Keywords: Hispanismo, hispanismos nacionales, español, pluriculturalidad

Hispanismo que viene: Israel y Marruecos

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Em torno da literatura dos “judeus novos” hispano-portugueses: o caso de João Pinto Delgado

Resumo: O presente estudo constitui uma abordagem de um subtipo específico do corpus da literatura de conversos, o qual corresponde às obras da diáspora sefaradita ocidental. Trata-se de obras escritas em espanhol e português por autores de origem judaico conversa, que se voltam ao judaísmo depois de terem vivido como cristãos por várias gerações, tendo se nutrido do acervo cultural e religioso do catolicismo. O trabalho analisa um poema de João Pinto Delgado como exemplo representativo dessa literatura. On the literature produced by luso-hispanic “New Jews”: the case of João Pinto Delgado - Abstract: The present study is an approach to a specific subtype of the literature produced by converted Jews (theso called conversos), which corresponds to the works ofthe Western Sephardic Diaspora. These are works written in Spanish and Portuguese by authors of Jewish origin, who turned to Judaism after having lived as Christians for several generations, having nurtured themselves with the cultural and religious patrimony of Catholicism. The paper analyzes a poem by João Pinto Delgado, as a representative example of this subtype of literature

De inversiones e ironías: La gitanilla y El amante liberal en clave bíblica

The Little Gypsy Girl and The Generous Lover, the two texts that inaugurate the collection of the Exemplary Novels by Cervantes, are thematically and structurally related. My reading identifies a common ground for the two novels based on the transposition and inversion of the biblical text, in general, and the topic of freedom in the biblical context, in particular. In my view, through the intertextual interplay that they convey and the subsequent ironic effect of destabilization, the two novels permeate a subtle denunciation of the social reality of the period.Anales Cervantinos y El amante liberal, los dos textos que inauguran la colección de las Novelas ejemplares, se hallan vinculados temática y estructuralmente. Nuestro análisis relaciona ambas novelas a partir de la trasposición e inversión que evidencian en lo que al referente bíblico atañe y de modo particular a la isotopía de la libertad en el marco de dicho referente. El análisis de la intertextualidad bíblica perfilada en ambas novelas pone de manifiesto la desestabilización irónica que tales inversiones provocan, resultando en una sutil denuncia de la realidad social del período

Ernest Haskell (1876-1925): A Retrospective Exhibition: A Portfolio of Selected Work

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Sexual function in 16- to 21-year-olds in Britain

Purpose: Concern about young people's sexuality is focused on the need to prevent harmful outcomes such as sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancy. Although the benefit of a broader perspective is recognized, data on other aspects of sexuality, particularly sexual function, are scant. We sought to address this gap by measuring the population prevalence of sexual function problems, help seeking, and avoidance of sex in young people. Methods: A cross-sectional stratified probability sample survey (Natsal-3) of 15,162 women and men in Britain (response rate: 57.7%), using computer-assisted self-interviews. Data come from 1875 (71.9%) sexually active, and 517 sexually inactive (18.7%), participants aged 16–21 years. Measures were single items from a validated measure of sexual function (the Natsal-SF). Results: Among sexually active 16- to 21-year-old participants, 9.1% of men and 13.4% of women reported a distressing sexual problem lasting 3 months or more in the last year. Most common among men was reaching a climax too quickly (4.5%), and among women was difficulty in reaching climax (6.3%). Just over a third (35.5%) of men and 42.3% of women reporting a problem had sought help, but rarely from professional sources. Among those who had not had sex in the last year, just >10% of young men and women said they had avoided sex because of sexual difficulties. Conclusions: Distressing sexual function problems are reported by a sizeable minority of sexually active young people. Education is required, and counseling should be available, to prevent lack of knowledge, anxiety, and shame progressing into lifelong sexual difficulties

Football: a counterpoint to the procession of pain on the Western Front, 1914-1918?

In this article, three artworks of the First World War containing images of recreational football are analysed. These three images, In the Wings of the Theatre of War, Artillery Men at Football and Gassed, span the war from its beginning to its conclusion and are discussed in relationship to the development of recreational football in the front-line area, the evolving policies of censorship and propaganda and in consideration of the national mood in Britain. The paper shows how football went from being a spontaneous and improvised pastime in the early stages of the war to a well organized entertainment by war’s end. The images demonstrate how the war was portrayed as a temporary affair by a confident nation in 1914 to a more resigned acceptance of a semi-permanent event to be endured by 1918; however, all three artworks show that the sporting spirit, and hence the fighting spirit, of the British soldier was intact