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Jewish Brazilians or Brazilian Jews? A Reflection on Brazilian Ethnicity
- Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 19, Number 3, Spring 2001
- pp. 65-72
- 10.1353/sho.2001.0028
- Article
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How is ethnic and national identity negotiated in Brazil? By asking how Jews fit into a broadly constructed ethnic Brazil, this article argues that the field of Jewish Studies will benefit more from cross-group comparison. It further argues that feelings of insecurity among Brazilian Jews stem more from a sense that in Brazil ethnicity should be practiced at home than from actual public attacks on Jewish ethnic life.