Judaism in the Amazon, a Frontier Space of the Sephardic Culture and Customs

• Autor(a) principal: Benchimol-Barros, Silvia Helena
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/37016
• topic: Tradução; Costumes; Espaço; Translation; Customs; Frontier

This study approaches the reality of Sephardic Jews in the Brazilian Amazon from the perspective of the preservation of customs emanating from religion in a new environment and motivated by the diasporic movement. Included in the analyses is the concept of cultural translation and the notion of in-between place. The study presents a brief historical retrospective of populational displacements which provoked resignifications resulting from the immigration process and intercultural contacts. As theoretical contributions, we have adopted the studies produced by Bhabha (1990, 2007); Derrida (2002); Buden and Nowotny (2009) on translation; and deconstruction and Benchimol’s (1998) and Heller’s (2010) works on Sephardic Jews in the Amazon, among others. The reflections ensued lead us to the perception of a dualism that opposes essentialism vs. hybridism – evident, respectively, in religious practices and Jewish customs that are justified by the motivational factors: survival and resistance.