Brazil was another of
the countries to which ICA directed Jewish emigrants, helping them to settle on
the land. ICA created reception centers, helped to found communal organizations,
opened and subsidized educational, cultural and religious institutions, and
played a large part in the formation of the Brazilian Jewish community. Despite
all efforts, the Brazilian settlements never prospered to the same extent as
those in Argentina.
From 1955, the Brazilian government opened its doors to a considerable number of Jewish immigrants from Egypt, Hungary and Poland. In the absence of suitable candidates for agricultural settlement, ICA, together with the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), set up loan banks as a means of facilitating the integration of the new arrivals into the economic life of the country.