Exhibit on Crypto-Jews Tours Brazil
(IsraelNN.com) For the second year in a row, a vivid exhibition tracing the history and experience of the Bnai Anousim (Jews who hid their identity for fear of persecution) is drawing large crowds across Brazil as it tours the vast South American country.www.shavei.org), a Jerusalem-based group that reaches out and assists “lost Jews” seeking to return to the Jewish people.
The exhibition, entitled “Crypto-Jews: The Flame that the Inquisition Could Not Extinguish,” was designed and produced by Shavei Israel (
It opened yesterday at a festive ceremony at the Center for Jewish Culture in the southern city of Sao Paolo, where approximately half of Brazil’s Jewish community currently resides. Hundreds of local Jews and Bnai Anousim attended.
In recent weeks, the exhibition was on display in the cities of Porto Alegre and Curitiba in the south, as well as Recife in the north of the country. It includes a wide array of maps, illustrations and photographs, with explanatory panels in Hebrew and Portuguese that tell the story of the Bnai Anousim and their struggle over the centuries to preserve their Jewish identity. A Spanish-language version has previously been shown in Israel and in Spain.La exhibición, titulada “Criptojudíos: la llama que la inquisición nunca logró apagar”, fue diseñada y producida por Shavei Israel (www.shavei.org), una organización situada en Jerusalem, la cual asiste a “judíos perdidos” los cuales desean retornar al pueblo judío.