In this chapter, São Paulo becomes the focus of my attention. I again compare the two realities, German and Brazilian, but this time from a different perspective. I try to see Brazil as Margarethe and her husband may have, considering the contrast between what they were leaving behind and the novelties they were confronting. The other German Jews who are a part of this story also come onstage, having similarly set sail in haste, turning their backs on Nazi Germany. In the great Brazilian metropolis that was booming at the end of the 1930s, the immigrants portrayed here worked their way into the urban fabric and the job market simultaneously, finding their place within the Jewish community, collectively leaving their mark, and dealing with the rules for control of migratory flows established by the Vargas government. From a variety of backgrounds—shaped by social origins, age, family composition, possible previous relationships with Brazil, and the emotional and financial losses suffered during their years in Nazi Germany—each of them, alone or with their spouses and family members, found their own solutions to this set of challenges. Nonetheless, some collective tendencies emerge, the contours of which I seek to outline.

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Dropping Anchor in Brazil: Margarethe Levy

  • Mônica Raisa Schpun

摘要

In this chapter, São Paulo becomes the focus of my attention. I again compare the two realities, German and Brazilian, but this time from a different perspective. I try to see Brazil as Margarethe and her husband may have, considering the contrast between what they were leaving behind and the novelties they were confronting. The other German Jews who are a part of this story also come onstage, having similarly set sail in haste, turning their backs on Nazi Germany. In the great Brazilian metropolis that was booming at the end of the 1930s, the immigrants portrayed here worked their way into the urban fabric and the job market simultaneously, finding their place within the Jewish community, collectively leaving their mark, and dealing with the rules for control of migratory flows established by the Vargas government. From a variety of backgrounds—shaped by social origins, age, family composition, possible previous relationships with Brazil, and the emotional and financial losses suffered during their years in Nazi Germany—each of them, alone or with their spouses and family members, found their own solutions to this set of challenges. Nonetheless, some collective tendencies emerge, the contours of which I seek to outline.