Dom Jaime Cardinal de Barros Camara, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, today expressed special thanks to a number of leading Brazilian Jews for their aid in the construction of the Central Cathedral here.
Included among the Jews cited by the cardinal were Adolfo Bloch, publisher of several popular illustrated magazines; Rubens Amaral, a television director; and Zigmunt Weiss and Antonin Polack, well-known Brazilian industrialists.
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