How did Jewish immigrants mix with the Afro-Spiritual traditions and Kardec's Spiritism in Brazil over the last 300 years? What elements of Jewish religious practice are found in Candomblé and Umbanda? How did they influence each other? How have spirit manifestations and mediumistic phenomena developed throughout the centuries in mainstream and mystical Judaism?
These and other fascinating questions we explore with visual anthropologist Alex Minkin.
Alex created two acclaimed documentaries on this subject (Urban Orishas and Synagogue of Ancestral Commitments) and shares his personal journey as a Russian Jew born in Moscow, raised during the last years of the Soviet Union and his migration to the West, when he discovered spiritual traditions of other cultures and fell in love with Brazil's.
LINKS:
Saravá Shalom: https://youtu.be/AaiyLilDM4w
Urban Orishas: https://youtu.be/Os9Oz0AWMrY