Casa Do Povo w/ Ben Serrousi

Ben Serrousi is the Artistic Director of Casa Do Povo, an anti-fascist diasporic Jewish Community center in Sao Paolo, Brazil that was envisioned as a living memorial in 1946. Over the decades Casa Do Povo has been home to an experimental “Sholem Aleichem School”, Yiddish Theater Companies and choirs, a publication, in addition to serving as a meeting place for grassroots social movements within and beyond the Jewish community.

Through our conversation we discussed the long history of Jews in Brazil and Casa Do Povo’s place within it. We explored themes including: ways to productively relate to legacy left-wing, as well as mainstream, Jewish institutions, the value of physical space in community organizing, cross-cultural diasporic solidarity, and much more.

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Thank you to Arto Lindsay for his arrangement of Zog Nit Keynmol in our intro and outro. Check out music produced by Casa Do Povo, including this song, on Soundcloud!