The history of the Uni\u00e3o Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Beneficente Israelita (Jewish Beneficent Society) goes back before its foundation in 1937 and has its origins in the mid 1930\u2019s, with the arrival of the first Jewish refugees from Germany to Rio de Janeiro and S\u00e3o Paulo. They are assisted and accommodated by a group of activists of different origins, especially from Eastern Europe, already domiciled in Brazil, in the old headquarter of the Relief Society, at Joaquim Palhares street, in the former Jewish neighbourhood Pra\u00e7a XI. Over 100 refugees are housed there, while others are put up in inns and private homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1933, a small group of German Jewish immigrants gets together into a club they name \u201cCentro 33\u201d in the Marques de Paran\u00e1 street, to exchange experience and information, but also to revive cultural e religious habits of the lost homeland. In the year to follow they organize by their own means the first religious services for the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The need for governmental recognition for the assistance work for the immigrants \u2013 to assure their subsistence in the new country as well provide them with legal advice due to the political issues in Brazil and in Germany \u2013, endorsed the foundation of the Uni\u00e3o on February 24th<\/sup>, 1937. Many refugees had an irregular status in Brazil and had so far a tourist visa. In December 1937, as the situation of the irregular status of tourists urged, 40 people a day required legal advice at Uni\u00e3o. In August 1938, when the possibility of officialising their stay, there were 50 to 70 advice seeking people per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1938 and 1939, with the change in the immigrants\u2019 profile \u2013 initially young men who managed to escape Nazi Germany, then however their recently arrived parents and grandparents \u2013 the Uni\u00e3o needs to make new arrangements and creates and elderly home, which is still today the main task of the institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The history of the Uni\u00e3o Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Beneficente Israelita (Jewish Beneficent Society) goes back before its foundation in 1937 and has its origins in the mid 1930\u2019s, with the arrival of the first Jewish refugees from Germany to Rio de Janeiro and S\u00e3o Paulo. They are assisted and accommodated by a group of activists of different origins, especially from Eastern Europe, already domiciled in Brazil, in the old headquarter of the Relief Society, at Joaquim Palhares street, in the former Jewish neighbourhood Pra\u00e7a XI. Over 100 refugees are housed there, while others are put up in inns and private homes. In 1933, a small group of German Jewish immigrants gets together into a club they name \u201cCentro 33\u201d in the Marques de Paran\u00e1 street, to exchange experience and information, but also to revive cultural e religious habits of the lost homeland. 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