What You Will Do
São Paulo has the second largest Jewish community in Latin America, behind Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. Of the 110,000 Jews living in Brazil, approximately 60,000 people live in the city of São Paulo.
Jewish immigrants came from different countries in Europe and the Middle East and contributed to an intense cultural and political transformation of the city, founding newspapers, libraries, schools, synagogues, charitable associations, profoundly marking São Paulo society with the culture of Judaism
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Itinerary
1
Memorial da Imigração Judaica e do Holocausto
1 hour
The memorial is located in the building of the state's first synagogue, Kehilat Israel, and brings a little of the Jewish memory through rare objects, documents, photos and multimedia resources.
2
Bom Retiro
the first neighborhood where Jewish immigrants settled in São Paulo.
3
Higienopolis
Former stronghold of the coffee barons and that from the 1920s onwards becomes one of the main points of the Jewish community in São Paulo.
4
Unibes Cultural
30 minutes
Founded in 1915, the institution was created from the merger of several groups and organizations working in the areas of social assistance with the Jewish community, with the purpose of helping the thousands of immigrants who arrived in Brazil as a result of the first and second World War.
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