THE CRYPTO JEWS OF BRAZIL

Fecha de publicación: Feb 08, 2017 4:21:17 PM

by Arthur Benveniste From Western States Jewish History, April 1997 Vol XXIX No. 3 Editor's Introduction-Arthur Benveniste is a distinguished writer in the Sephardic community. What follows is a personal account by him of his Jewish adventures in Brazil. Benveniste is a close friend of the editor. Mr. Robert J. Linden of Heliotrope Production, another friend, introduced the editor to writer Judith Fein who has lectured widely on the same trip. The present article verified her statement, "The reality of Crypto-Jews today is not an easy one," she said, "not only for 500 years have they... más »