Promised Lands

jewish nationalism and its repercussions in Brazil

Abstract

The article, using different sources, analyzes the relationship between the Zionist movement and Judaism, their distances and approximations, articulating notions such as religion, politics and Yiddish culture with the idea of building a Jewish State. In this sense, it identifies different proposed territories for the formation of this State, that is, geographic spaces linked to different ideological and geopolitical interests. When reconstructing this history, which took place in the first half of the 20th century, it also addresses its repercussion among Jews living in Brazil and the role of Jewish education in a context of transformations, conflicts and mediations between different conceptions of Judaism. The persistence of the State of Israel as a historical problem to be studied and, sometimes, the lack of knowledge and/or naturalization of these perspectives and their implications in the process of creating this national State justify the present approach.