The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
The Jewish Grandparents' Kiss in the Square of a Spanish Inquisition Burning
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Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about the history of crypto- and Sephardi Jews in Mexico, as well as the Jewish-Mexican experience more broadly, and relates the story of the strange connection between his grandparents' first kiss and the autos-da-fé.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ilan Stavans.
This excerpt is in English.
Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1961.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.