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Philosemitism without Jews: Brazilian Political Uses of the Imaginary Jew" by Misha Klein

April 17, 2024 The 21st century rise of the evangelical right wing in Brazil has been accompanied by the deployment of Jewish and Israeli symbols to signify political (rather than ethnic or religious) identity. This appropriation of Jewishness has little to do with Jews per se, but with what Jews and Judaism have come to represent among social conservatives in contemporary Brazil. Misha Klein is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, and also affiliated and actively involved with the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies, and the Departments of International Studies (Latin American Studies and the Brazil Center) and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is Chair of the Clyde Snow Social Justice Award Committee, sponsored by OU’s Center for Social Justice, and recipient of the 2019 Oklahoma Universal Human Rights Award and the 2021 OU Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching. Klein received her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2002 from the University of California at Berkeley. Her primary research is in Brazil and addresses the relationship between ethnic and national identity, with the multicultural and transnational Jewish population as her entry point into an exploration of the meanings of race, class, and belonging. Her book, Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo (U Press of Florida 2012), is based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city of São Paulo, drawing on over six years of living and working in Brazil (and is now being translated to Portuguese for publication in Brazil). Her current research is a collaboration with historian Michel Gherman from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro that considers the changing concept of race in Brazil; the circulation of transnational discourses on race, Israel, Zionism, and anti-Semitism; the shifting political landscape in Brazil, including the rise of the evangelical right-wing; the reverberations among leftist activists; and the impact of all of this on Jewish identity and political participation in Brazil. They have co-authored papers based on this research in two languages, including “From Beacon to Siren: The Transformation of Brazil from Racial Utopia to Racist/Antisemitic Dystopia.” (2021); and “Protest and the End of Community Consensus,” in the 2023 interdisciplinary collection, Jews Across the Americas: 1492-Present." This talk is a part of the Gale Collaborative on Jewish Life in the Americas Lecture Series. Sponsored by: Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies; Department of Anthropology