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Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-08413-6. Pieroni, Geraldo. "Outcasts from the Kingdom: The Inquisition and the Banishment of New Christians to Brazil," in Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering, eds. The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800. New ...
Jewish immigration rose throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, at a time of massive emigration from the Russian Empire (including Poland and Ukraine). Jewish immigration to Brazil was rather low between 1881 and 1900 although this was the height of other international immigration to Brazil; many were going to more industrialized countries.
At first, these Jewish Christians, originally the central group in Christianity, were not declared unorthodox but they were later excluded from the Jewish community and denounced. Some Jewish Christian groups, such as the Ebionites , were accused of having unorthodox beliefs, particularly in relation to their views of Christ and gentile converts.
The exterior of the museum, in 2006. In 1630, Moses Cohen Henriques led a Jewish contingent to Itamracá, an island off Brazil.From there they settled in Recife. [3] After his retirement circa 1636 from privateering for the Dutch and perhaps pirating, Cohen Henriques assisted his brother, Abraham Cohen, in establishing the Kahal Zur Israel synagogue. [3]
At age 26, Aguiar became religiously Jewish after meeting rabbi Tovia Singer. [12] However, because he was born to an halachically Jewish mother, he did not need to formally convert. His family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida when Aguiar was one year old. [10] He graduated from the Westminster Academy Christian School in 1995.
On May 15, 1948, emergency law was declared, and a royal decree forbade Egyptian citizens to leave the country without a special permit. This was applied to Jews. Hundreds of Jews were arrested and many had their property confiscated. In June through August 1948, bombs were planted in Jewish neighborhoods and Jewish businesses looted.
The smuggling of seeds for rubber trees out of Brazil to England in 1876 and the successful planting of seedlings in Indonesia and Ceylon eventually helped cause the bubble to burst. The Jewish Committee of Amazonas was established on June 15, 1929, by which time the first local synagogue, Beit Yaacov, had already been operating since 1925.
A generation later, when Portugal colonized Brazil, some of the grown children were sent to work in the Brazilian sugar trade. [ 2 ] A new community of Jews was established on the islands in the 19th and 20th centuries with the arrival of a small number of Jewish sugar and cocoa traders.