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Between Ultra-Zionism and antisemitism: Brazil as a Mirror of the World

Professor Eric Heinze has co-authored an article for the online magazine K.

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The oldest synagogue in the Americas, Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, located in Recife, Brazil.

Image by Ricardo André Frantz (User:Tetraktys), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

After the sad period of Bolsonarism, Brazilian Jews, most of whom are progressive, were looking forward to a new term under Lula. But the new president’s virulent anti-Zionism seems to have disappointed them. Renan Antônio da Silva and Eric Heinze guide us through this affair, from the long history of Brazilian Jewry to the open secret of the elites’ longstanding antisemitic wanderings.

Read the full article on K.

 

 

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