Pautando-me pelos dados colhidos em formulários enviados a um grupo de pessoas convertidas ao judaísmo, entre os anos de 2006 e 2016, pela sinagoga da Associação Religiosa Israelita do Rio de Janeiro, pretendo avaliar se aqueles que se convertem causam augum tipo de reconfiguração na identidade da A.R.I. / Guided me on data collected from forms have sent to a group of people converted to Judaism (between 2006-2016) by the synagogue of the Israelite Religious Association (IRA) of Rio de Janeiro, I intend to present the perspectives of those who was converted to cause some kind of reconfiguration of identity IRA.

89 7. RESUMÉ The thesis is focused on the life of Jewish community in Prague, on the background of post-Holocaust and post-communist Europe. In the first part, the reader is introduced into the historical and sociological views on Jewish identity, with an emphasis on Central Europe and Prague in particular. The main part of the thesis is divided in separate chapters, each dedicated to one of the contemporary Jewish congregations in Prague. A special attention is given to the Jewish Community of Prague (Kehila Prag, or ŽOP). The other congregations analyzed in the thesis are Chabad Prague (part of Hasidic movement Chabad Lubavitch), Bejt Simcha and Jewish Liberal Union (both liberal/progressive), Bejt Praha and Masorti Prague (both conservative). Since the current situation of the communities has been poorly covered in relevant literature, our main sources of knowledge have been the internet pages of individual congregations, legal documents (statutes, articles of association), and periodicals issued by some of the communities. The question "Who is a Jew" is central in searching for the Jewish identities. The answers vary across the congregations (according to their nature - orthodox, conservative, liberal), with ŽOP being the most problematic. The orthodox Kehila Prag has founded its membership policies on...