Anti-semitic roots in Brazil or a different view of Paris

The construction of culture undergoes a number of cultural influences. Cultural dynamics disavows alleged ethnocentric positions. From the beginning, Brazilian history has been linked to various socio-cultural systems. In the last two centuries, an intense incorporation of French and Anglo-Saxon cultures has been added to the Iberian, African and Native influences. Together, these have molded, to a large extent, our hearts and minds. This paper focuses on the influence of French culture and French conservative Catholicism in the constitution of Brazilian anti-semitism. The analisys of religious iconography reveals one of the sources of the satanization of the Jews in popular and elite imagination. The development of the social exclusion of the French Jews and their deportation to the concentration camps is analysed in the context of a tour around the Marais, the jewish district in Paris. Corbusier's concentrationist architecture completes the social exclusion picture. All of these elements together allow us to understand, to a certain extent, how the image of the immigrant Jew was built and seen by various authors.A construção da cultura passa por múltiplas influências culturais. A dinâmica cultural desmente pretensas posições etnocêntricas. Ao longo do tempo a história brasileira se viu vinculada a vários sistemas socioculturais e, nos dois últimos séculos, às influências ibérica, africana e indígena houve intensa incorporação da cultura francesa e anglo-saxônica que somadas, moldaram, em grande parte, nossos corações e mentes. Neste trabalho se focaliza a influência da cultura e do catolicismo conservador francês na formação do anti-semitismo brasileiro. A partir da análise da iconografia religiosa se observará uma das fontes da construção da diabolização do judeu no imaginário popular e culto. A construção da exclusão social dos judeus franceses e sua deportação para campos de concentração será observada através de um roteiro pelo Marais, o bairro judaico de Paris. A arquitetura concentracionista de Corbusier completa o quadro da exclusão social. Todos estes elementos, reunidos, permitem entender, em parte, como foi sendo construída a imagem do judeu imigrante no Brasil expressa por vários autores

Violência contra a mulher e políticas públicas

UNLIKE numerous existing studies of excellent quality, this survey attempts to investigate not only domestic violence, as it is known, but also the various types of homicide - attempted or consummated - committed against women from all age groups. We investigated and endeavored to compare how this kind of crime was treated: 1. by the media - in particular, 1991 and 2000 newspapers, radio, and television; 2. in police reports filed in 1998 at precincts of the city of São Paulo; and 3. in judicial lawsuits, according to a representative sampling of the five jury courtrooms in the city of São Paulo in 1997. We sought to learn how the media, so resistant at first, dealt with violence towards women at the onset of the 21st century, what the police reports recorded and how the murderers of women were sentenced. The complexity of our results reveals changes in certain segments and a simultaneous mechanism that feeds back and advances age-old violence in gender-based social relations. We conclude by propounding the implementation of transversal gender policy to counter this violence.DIFERENTEMENTE dos inúmeros estudos existentes, de excelente qualidade, esta pesquisa busca investigar não apenas a chamada violência doméstica mas os vários tipos de homicídio - tentativa ou consumação - de mulheres, de todas as faixas etárias. Ela investigou e procurou comparar como este crime era tratado: 1. pela mídia (especialmente jornais de 1991 e de 2000); pelo rádio e televisão; 2. nos Boletins de Ocorrência das Delegacias de Policia da capital de São Paulo (do ano de 1998); 3. nos Processos Judiciais, através de uma amostra representativa dos cinco Tribunais do Júri da Capital de São Paulo (de 1997). Desejava saber como a mídia tão resistente a principio se comportava na passagem do século XXI face à violência contra a mulher, o que os BOs registravam e como eram julgados os assassinos/as de mulheres. Os complexos resultados obtidos revelaram mudanças em alguns segmentos e um concomitante mecanismo que retroalimenta a antiga violência nas relações sociais de gênero. Concluindo propõe-se a implantação de uma política transversal de gênero para enfrentar a violência

Minorias, Política e Violência

Neste pequeno ensaio traçarei, em linhas gerais, a condição das mulheres no Brasil apontando a correlação entre as tentativas de alteração da subalternidade feminina através do novo Código Civil. Analisarei como, ao mudar a “forma da Lei” resultaram reações danosas para as mulheres como o crescimento da violência e a sua exclusão no campo da representação eleitoralIn this little essay I have traced, in general lines, the women’s condition in Brazil signalling the correlation between the attempts of changing the feminine subalternity through the new Civil Code. I have analysed how, while changing the “Law’s form” resulted in harmful reactions to the women as the growth of violence and their exclusion in the electoral representation fiel

Um olhar judaico sobre Paris

A Professora Eva Blay descreve suas impressões de uma recente viagem a Paris, enfatizando em suas visitas ao Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaisme (MAHJ) e ao Musée Nissim de Camondo. Essas observações trazem a conclusão de que o antissemitismo e o preconceito ainda estão vivos na sociedade francesa. A Jewish view on Paris - Abstract: Professor Eva Blay describes her impressions of a recent travel to Paris, focusing on her visits to the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaisme (MAHJ) and to the Musée Nissim de Camondo. These observations lead to the conclusion that antisemitism and prejudice are still alive in French society.

Gênero, resistência e identidade: imigrantes judeus no Brasil

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?"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

Converting olefins to propene: Ethene to propene and olefin cracking

Demand for propene as a petrochemical building block keeps growing, while its availability has been decreased by the adoption of shale gas resources, among others. Efforts to optimize its production by conventional means (including modified fluid catalytic cracking) and new on-purpose production technologies (including ethene to propene (ETP) and olefin cracking) are being pursued. This work reviews the progress made on olefin conversion processes, including the ETP reaction, which is still under development, and the cracking of butenes and higher olefins (C5–C8). The factors analyzed include the catalytic performance of different zeolite materials and their modifications to increase catalyst stability, yield, and selectivity to propene, as well as the effect of operating conditions, reaction thermodynamics, and mechanisms involved. The work is complemented by a survey of commercial technologies and developments on olefin conversion processes

Electrochemical identification of painters/workshops: The case of Valencian Renaissance-Baroque painters (ca. 1550- ca. 1670)

[EN] The voltammetry of immobilized particles (VIMP) methodology was applied to discriminate the oil painting production of a series of seven painters/workshops that worked in Valencia (Spain) between ca. 1530 and ca. 1650. When submicrosamples used for cross-section FESEM/EDX analysis were attached to graphite electrodes in contact with aqueous acetate buffer, well-defined responses were obtained. The reductive processes of lead pigments (lead white and lead-tin yellow) overlapped those associated to the lead soaps and other species resulting from the pigment-oil binder interaction in the sample. Such responses, which are theoretically modeled, were sensitive to changes in paint type and dose and thus provided a painter/workshop-characteristic voltammetric response defining a usable electrochemical fingerprint for authorship assessments. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Project CTQ2017-85317-C2-1-P, supported with Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO), Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (ERDF) and Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI), is gratefully acknowledged. The authors wish also to thank Mr. Manuel Planes and Dr. Jose Luis Moya, technical supervisors of the Electron Microscopy Service of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.Doménech Carbó, A.; Domenech Carbo, MT.; Castelló Palacios, A.; Guerola Blay, V.; Pérez Marín, E. (2019). Electrochemical identification of painters/workshops: The case of Valencian Renaissance-Baroque painters (ca. 1550- ca. 1670). Electrochimica Acta. 297:685-695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.11.212S68569529