Fleeing the Nazi persecution that plagued Europe and that resulted in forced migration, they arrived in Brazil and settled in São Paulo in the first decades of the 20th century. The city that they chose as their new home had, at that moment, gained the stereotypical image of “the largest industrial center of Latin America”.

Starting July 30, the Museu Judaico de São Paulo (MUJ) will present To Walk Down from the Clouds, an exhibition by Leila Danziger displayed on the mezzanine level, a space set aside for exhibitions related to the Museum’s collection.

Numerous plant species, many previously named by original peoples, were (re)christened with misogynist, racist, anti-Semitic and prejudiced names, creating another layer of symbolic violence against identities outside normative and hegemonic models.

This content enhances and juxtaposes the many fundamental questions of Jewish culture: the letters, the words, the texts, the book – a plural word open to commentary and interpretation.

Since the 1st century CE, there are records of the presence of Jews on the Iberian Peninsula. For centuries they lived, prospered and participated in politics and the economy, contributing to the development of the region.