Sao Paulo Trip Overview
São Paulo has the second largest Jewish community in Latin America, behind Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. Of the 110,000 Jews living in Brazil, approximately 60,000 people live in the city of São Paulo.
Jewish immigrants came from different countries in Europe and the Middle East and contributed to an intense cultural and political transformation of the city, founding newspapers, libraries, schools, synagogues, charitable associations, profoundly marking São Paulo society with the culture of Judaism
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Duration: 5 hours
Starts: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
São Paulo has the second largest Jewish community in Latin America, behind Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. Of the 110,000 Jews living in Brazil, approximately 60,000 people live in the city of São Paulo.
Jewish immigrants came from different countries in Europe and the Middle East and contributed to an intense cultural and political transformation of the city, founding newspapers, libraries, schools, synagogues, charitable associations, profoundly marking São Paulo society with the culture of Judaism
Itinerary
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Stop At: Memorial da Imigração Judaica e do Holocausto, R. da Graça, 160 – Bom Retiro, São Paulo – SP, 01125-000, Brazil
The memorial is located in the building of the state’s first synagogue, Kehilat Israel, and brings a little of the Jewish memory through rare objects, documents, photos and multimedia resources.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Bom Retiro, Bom Retiro, State of Santa Catarina
the first neighborhood where Jewish immigrants settled in São Paulo.
Pass By: Higienopolis, Higienopolis, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo
Former stronghold of the coffee barons and that from the 1920s onwards becomes one of the main points of the Jewish community in São Paulo.
Stop At: Unibes Cultural, Rua Oscar Freire 2500 Sumaré, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo 05409-012 Brazil
Founded in 1915, the institution was created from the merger of several groups and organizations working in the areas of social assistance with the Jewish community, with the purpose of helping the thousands of immigrants who arrived in Brazil as a result of the first and second World War.
Duration: 30 minutes
