Jewish immigration to Brazil and anti-semitism in the discourse of elite groups.

Authors

  • Natália Dos Reis Cruz Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2009v8n15p225

Abstract

This article looks at anti-semitism in Brazil from the 1920s to 40s, placing emphasis on the imaginary of Brazilian elites regarding Jews. The persecution of the Jews in Europe contributed to immigration to Brazil, leading to the creation of Jewish neighborhoods in several Brazilian cities. Elite discourse of the period took up a defense of the “theory of whitening”, based on racial and cultural miscegenation and the negation of racial problems in the country, turning Jews into one of the targets of a politics of nationalization and intolerance on the part of the Brazilian state. Keywords: anti-semitism, nationalism, racism, intolerance, elites.

Author Biography

Natália Dos Reis Cruz, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Doutora em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense e professora do Departamento de Ciências da Sociedade e Desenvolvimento Regional da Universidade Federal Fluminense.

Downloads

Published

2009-10-29

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 15 (2009)

Section

Artigos

License

Authors retain the copyright and publishing rights to their works without restrictions.

By submitting their manuscripts, authors grant Revista Política & Sociedade the exclusive right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License. This license allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the published work, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and the original publication in this journal.

Authors are also permitted to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of their work in this journal (for example, depositing it in an institutional repository, posting it on a personal website, publishing translations, or including it as a book chapter), provided that authorship and the original publication in Revista Política & Sociedade are properly acknowledged.