Gender, resistance and identity: jewish immigrants in Brazil

"Vim para ficar": esta afirmação sintetiza o projeto dos imigrantes judeus que vieram para o Brasil. Várias vezes tiveram de esconder sua origem judaica, superar perseguições político-ideológicas a fim de garantir o direito à identidade e cidadania. Como essas reivindicações e lutas repercutiram nas relações entre homens e mulheres e entre as famílias judias? E entre os judeus, como se organizaram essas relações? Desigualdades teriam sido trazidas na bagagem? Ou as relações de dominação dos homens sobre as mulheres foram incorporadas pelos imigrantes judeus quando passaram a viver no Brasil? Ou, ainda, pode-se afirmar que, de modo geral, as relações entre homens e mulheres judeus eram igualitárias?Jews came to Brazil "to stay for good" from the first half of the 16th century. Yet settling in Brazil has been an ongoing project throughout the five centuries of Jewish immigration. They frequently had to hide their Jewish condition and, from the 18th century onwards, overcome political-ideological persecutions in order to safeguard their own identity and fight for their citizenship. How have these demands and struggles affected the relationships between men and women and among Jewish families? So how have these relationships been organized among Jews? Were inequalities brought along with their luggage? Or were the relations based on male dominance of women incorporated by Jewish immigrants after they arrived in Brazil? Can we affirm that relationships between Jewish men and women were generally egalitarian