RESISTÊNCIA CULTURAL DOS JUDEUS NO BRASIL

Abstract

The present academic work deals with the presence of the Jewish element in the Brazilian socio cultural formation, giving a special emphasis in the process of cultural resistance that the Jews, who were obliged to convert to Christianity, had to face to be able to survive. This work detaches the continuity of the memory, either collective or individual, as the element of the cultural resistance for the marranos Jews in Brazil. The work speaks on the Judaism, the historical process of formation of the Jewish people in Israel and the diaspora at a first moment. Later it approaches the thematic of the Jewish-marrano presence in Brazil and its cultural resistance to a predominantly Christian society, having the memory as main element of resistance. Finally, it is looked to show which of the elements of the Jewish-marrano culture still are present today in the Brazilian society, with special approach in the movements of rescue of marranism that we find in Brazil.