Judeus do Egito:

mudanças e permanências no Brasil

Abstract

In Egypt there were 90,000 jews, I was nine years old when the Suez Canal war broke out in 1957, my community was forced to migrate to different countries of the world. This diaspora left me many questions, it was necessary to understand how this community managed to keep its culture accumulated over many generations, and how this social body is displaced, and the construction of its conditions of existence here in Brazil. The departure from Egypt produced an uprooting and the welcome in Brazil allows the displacement of its habitus, when reproducing their practices read in the same business, language, housing in the neighborhood of Higienópolis, in São Paulo, around their synagogues and the under their community organizations.
Key-words: migrations; Jews; Egipt; habitus; Brazil