Mauro Boianovsky (1959–2024)

in Porto Alegre, in south ern Brazil, to pedi a tri cian David Luiz Boianovsky and Rosa Nhuch Boianovsssiky, the third gen er a tion of mod est Eastern Euro pean Jew ish immi grants flee ing per se cu tion. 1 Doctor David moved the fam ily for good to Braslia in 1971, the newly built cap i tal of the coun try, where he was hired as a pro fes sor at Universidade Nacional de Braslia (UNB).In 1976, Doctor David was appointed sec re tary of the Ministry of Labor in charge of devis ing bet ter food stan dards for indus trial work ers.He would later become an inter na tional con sul tant in health mat ters (Souza 2013: 75-90, 215-17).The young Boianovsky earned his degree in eco nom ics in 1979 from the then also young UNB, which had been founded in 1962.Even by the 1.The fam i lies of four Boianovsky sib lings, along with their elder par ents, from the vil lage of Shyroka Balka ( ), near Odessa, for mer Rus sian and now Ukrai nian ter ri tory, arrived in Brazil in 1913.They lived for a few months in the coun try side of the south ern state of Rio Grande do Sul.Harsh con di tions there, though, forced them to move fur ther south to Montevideo, Uruguay.After four years, Abro Boianovsky, a tai lor, and his Pol ish wife, Paulina Kaplan Boianovsky, came back with their chil dren to Brazil and set tled down per ma nently in Porto Alegre in a Jew ish neigh bor hood called Bom Fim (Veissid 1988).