Jewish Refugees in Portugal: Memories of Exile

Authors

  • Marina Pignatelli Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.11.21.164-185

Keywords:

Holocaust, Jews, Portugal

Abstract

This article focuses on the analysis of a set of memories of Jewish refugees in Portugal during World War II. The data were collected through in –depth interviews with some of the few of these refugees who remained, from the thousands that have passed here, in the middle of the sec. XX, in flight from the Holocaust and analyzed in the light of theoretical lenses of anthropology, by a qualitative methodology. The interpretative model followed, in addition to the necessary historical alignment, contemplates the perspectives in turn of the notion of memory, refugee and rites of passage, especially considering the moment of the arrival of the Jews in search of exile, in Portugal at that time.

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Author Biography

Marina Pignatelli, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Doutora em Ciências Socias pelo Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.

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Published

2017-11-26

How to Cite

Pignatelli, M. (2017). Jewish Refugees in Portugal: Memories of Exile. Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital De Estudos Judaicos Da UFMG, 11(21), 164–185. https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.11.21.164-185