{"title":"“IF I FORGET THEE, O BAGHDAD”: THE DEMISE OF ARAB-JEWISH IDENTITY AND CULTURE","authors":"R. Snir","doi":"10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the emergence of the modern Arabic literary writing of the Jews of Iraq and, after only a few decades, the start of its demise, in both Iraq and outside it, and then the switch to writing in Hebrew in Israel. The high point of such writing in Arabic was during the 1920s when Iraqi-Jews started to produce literary works that “were Arabic in essence and expression.” It was a secular literature, inspired by a cultural vision whose most eloquent dictum was “religion is for God, the fatherland is for everyone.” However, during recent decades the Arabic literature that 20-century Iraqi-Jews have produced has been totally relegated to the margins of Arabic culture. This development was due not only to political and national circumstances but also to the aesthetic and cultural norms of both Arabic-Muslim and Hebrew-Jewish cultural systems. The vision embedded in the aforementioned dictum was the product of a very limited period, a very confined space, and a very singular history. It lived to the age of a sturdy human being, by this rare combination of time, space and history, before disappearing and being forgotten, at least for the foreseeable future.","PeriodicalId":55909,"journal":{"name":"Asian and African Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"173-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81450204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembering Our Professor Ján Pauliny, the Leading Slovak Arabist","authors":"Z. Gažáková","doi":"10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55909,"journal":{"name":"Asian and African Studies","volume":"90 1","pages":"241-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87643196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE QUEST FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: AN INSCRIBED RELIC FROM ANCIENT RAPA NUI (EASTER ISLAND) – Part I","authors":"Tomi S. Melka, R. Schoch","doi":"10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"In Part I of this article (Melka and Schoch 2021), 1 we described an antique wooden artifact from Easter Island, known as the “ Lutz – Terasaki fragment”, that bears a single rongorongo glyph. Here we focus further on the “ Lutz – Terasaki fragment”, gleaning as much evidence as we can by resorting to a complex analysis. The ethno-linguistic, epigraphic, and xylological data point – thus far – toward the remains of an artifact of utilitarian and/or ritualistic scope. In order to exhaust every potentiality regarding the “ Lutz – Terasaki fragment” and the meaning of the glyph that it bears, we must consider similar contexts that may appear in the future if other artifacts are located bearing the same or a similar glyph. It is acknowledged that in the absence of new corroborating evidence, even the best - formed hypotheses concerning rongorongo glyphs and sequences may stretch too thin and, quite often, be summarily dismissed or simply ignored. Continuing investigation and rational conversation with scholars of Rapa Nui, we have found to our profit, are efficacious ways to respond to hypothetical settings. To suggest otherwise would be highly arguable or erroneous.","PeriodicalId":55909,"journal":{"name":"Asian and African Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76405165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Hudec, Branislav Kovár, E. Fulajtár, T. Lieskovský, L. Horáková, M. černý, Peter Barta
{"title":"A BRIEF REPORT ON THE 2019 SEASON IN DUWEYM WAD HAJ","authors":"J. Hudec, Branislav Kovár, E. Fulajtár, T. Lieskovský, L. Horáková, M. černý, Peter Barta","doi":"10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55909,"journal":{"name":"Asian and African Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"202-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77565503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ANALYSING THE MOTIF OF “DWARF PEOPLE” IN POLYNESIAN MYTHOLOGIES. MYTHICAL BUILDERS – Part II","authors":"M. Bučková","doi":"10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"According to numerous Polynesian myths, the Menehune were great builders, especially when it came to working with wood and stone. They were very skilled in processing stones which they transported over great distances. Myths recorded on the Hawaiian Islands attribute to them many heiau – shrines, lokoi‘a – ponds, roads and waterways. All these myths have an interesting common motif of the Menehune always finishing their work in just a single night. Thomas G. Thrum, in his article “Stories of the Menehunes. Hawaii the Original Home of the Brownies” also presents a message of the informant Moke Manu who mentioned that it was their rule that any work undertaken must be completed in one night. Otherwise, it would be left unfinished, as they did not labour twice on the same job; hence the origin of the saying: “He po hookahi, a ao ua pau”, in one night, and by dawn, it is finished. Another commonly found motif in these myths is the willingness of the Menehune to help people. This was mainly expressed through the Menehune","PeriodicalId":55909,"journal":{"name":"Asian and African Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"31-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79008226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memory of PhDr. Viktor Krupa, DrSC","authors":"A. Rácová","doi":"10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55909,"journal":{"name":"Asian and African Studies","volume":"8 7","pages":"235-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72367664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MUSLIMS VENTURE INTO POLITICS IN COLONIAL INDIA: A BRITISH PLOY OR AN INSTINCTIVE REACTION?","authors":"Belkacem Belmekki","doi":"10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55909,"journal":{"name":"Asian and African Studies","volume":"82 1","pages":"113-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76061113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SORBY, Karol R. Arabský východ po druhej svetovej vojne, I. diel (1945 – 1958) [The Arab East after World War II (1945 – 1958)]","authors":"Eduard Gombár","doi":"10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55909,"journal":{"name":"Asian and African Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"229-231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87139662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SORBY, Karol Jr. Iraq during the Reign of King Ghāzī (1933 – 1939)","authors":"E. Gombár","doi":"10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55909,"journal":{"name":"Asian and African Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"232-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88412679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ANWAR AS-SĀDĀT USHERS IN A NEW ERA IN SOVIET-EGYPTIAN RELATIONS, 1970 – 1971","authors":"K. Sorby","doi":"10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/AASSAV.2021.30.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55909,"journal":{"name":"Asian and African Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"75-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74704268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}