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Historically, until the 1930s, Orthodox Judaism was the main form of Judaism due to immigration of Eastern European Jews, but Central European Jewish immigrants later introduced Reform Judaism. The majority of the Brazilian Jewish community identifies as secular and Zionist .
Map showing the main areas of Jewish settlement in Brazil. Christian Portuguese came to Brazil, but they never formed an organized Jewish community that expressed publicly what could be characterized as Judaism.
The Jewish Museum in Rio de Janeiro documents the history of Jews in Brazil and gives insight into the culture of the city’s Jewish community. The area around Rua Alfandega is the center of Rio’s old Jewish neighborhood.
15 Ιουλ 2017 · To properly appreciate the history and contemporary expressions of Judaism in Brazil it is necessary to do a thorough overview of Jewish individuals, institutions, and significant events since the sixteenth century. This article is a brief overview of these key themes and stories.
This chapter treats the history and contemporary dynamics of Judaism in Brazil as they relate to both particular phases of Jewish immigration and current
28 Μαΐ 2019 · SÃO PAULO (RNS) — In the past few decades, Brazil has experienced an unexpected Jewish resurgence fueled by the descendants of Portuguese and Spanish Jews forced to convert to Christianity in...
Judaism in Brazil. Brazil’s Jewish community is the oldest in the Americas, with the first American synagogue founded in Recife in 1636 during the brief period of religiously tolerant pre-Portuguese Dutch rule. Brazil’s earliest Jews arrived in the sixteenth century, conversos or “hidden Jews” fleeing the Portuguese Catholic Inquisition.
