Sharp condemnation of anti-Semitic manifestations that have recently increased in Recife, capital of Brazil’s northeastern State of Pernambuco, was voiced in the National Assembly today by Rep, Andrade Lima Filho, a member of the Parliament’s opposition party.
Complaining that the police authorities of Recife “have done little to stem the anti-Semitic actions,” Mr. Lima Filho told the Assembly that, each day, there are scrawlings on homes at Recife, denouncing Jews and spreading charges that the Jews “are the enemies of Brazil and of Christianity.”
The oldest Jewish community in Brazil exists in Recife, where about 600 Jewish families live now. Founded more than 300 years ago by refugees from the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition, the Jewish community in Recife was the origin of those Jewish immigrants who fled northward to what was then New Amsterdam–now New York.
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