In this course we will engage in a concise consideration of the history of Arabs and Jews in Brazil from early Portuguese colonial rule to the present, focusing primarily on the history of immigration from the mid-nineteenth century. We will examine the North African Jewish immigration in the mid-nineteenth century, the movement of Lebanese and Syrians Christians and Muslims to Brazil in the late nineteenth century that in many ways parallels the immigration of Eastern European Jews in the early twentieth-century. We will consider the formation of communities and institutions over the course of the last hundred years and study Brazil’s foreign policy to the Middle East. Finally, we will study the Arab and Jewish communities of Jews in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
- Teacher: James Green