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- Title: Jerusalem and Sao Paulo
- Author : Marta F. Topel
- Release Date : January 11, 2008
- Genre: Judaism,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 868 KB
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Jerusalem and Sao Paulo is a pioneering work of over four years of anthropological research on the "repentance," or return to Jewish roots phenomenon, in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The return-to-Jewish-roots phenomenon is identified by its Hebrew name of teshuvah, and the individuals involved are called "baalei teshuvah" (repentants). Jerusalem and Sao Paulo describes the long process these young people undergo in their choice of Jewish Orthodoxy. Due to the fact that Judaism is an ortho-practical relig