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The Centaur in the Garden
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Psychoanalysis, dialectic materialism, nothing; laws of supply and demand, nothing, nothing; fiction, nothing. Nothing seemed applicable…

Contributor:

Moacyr Scliar

Places:

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Date:

1980

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Adolescence, Rite of passage, Israel/Israelis, Diaspora

Categories:

Fiction, Folklore
Bom Retiro, or The Childhood Neighborhood
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Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, the so-called “Days of Awe” arrived. There was no Jew in all of Bom Retiro who, God forbid, would ever think of not observing them. Any endeavor, no matter how important…

Contributor:

Eliezer Levin

Places:

São Paulo, Brazil

Date:

1972

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Class, Writing, Labor, Community

Categories:

Fiction
Kreuzer Sonata Advertisement
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A Portuguese-language advertisement for February 5–6, 1915, performances in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of the Grande Companhia Israelita’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella The Kreuzer Sonata.

Contributor:

Theatro Carlos Gomes

Places:

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Performing arts, Sephardic, Sephardi, Jewish identity

Categories:

Advertisements, Performing Arts
Page with Portuguese titles and text and small portrait photographs throughout.
Can I?
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I just can’t. Should I? I feel like going in, but I just can’t; I remain stationary. The church door opens and closes, continually, and I open and close with it, split asunder. Warmth escapes from…

Contributor:

Alberto Dines

Places:

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Date:

1972

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Christian-Jewish relations, Holidays, Community, Christianity

Categories:

Fiction