Significant, although imprecise, are the years of Jewish presence in Brazil. They can vary according to the chosen count: whether since the period of the Great Navigations, or because of the Inquisition in the Iberian Peninsula, or Moroccan immigration, or because of the tsarist, Nazi, communist persecutions… or when they left in search of a prosperous and secure future for themselves and their descendants. Jews, who always moved through the Old World, also found their way to the New World. The presence of Jews in Brazil was often undesired and, in a way, invalidated, for reasons beyond the way in which they pragmatically related to the country: raising their children, learning the language, incorporating habits, founding institutions for the common good and companies, enabling the present and sowing the future. From the Austrian Jewish writer Stefan Zweig (Vienna, 1881 – Petrópolis, 1942) is the expression “Brazil, Country of the future”....
