Anita Novinsky

Anita Waingort Novinsky was a Brazilian historian, who specialized in the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil, and the history of Jewish presence in Brazil, notably, the customs of the Crypto-Jews of the country and the renaissance of the awareness of their Jewish roots, 200 years after the end of the Inquisition in Brazil. She was the author of several books on this subject, an associate professor and the founder and chairperson of the Museum of Tolerance at the University of São Paulo.