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.

Lererkes and Shafeles: Yiddish in the Kindergarten Classroom

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Liora Rapoport, coordinator of library renovation project at CIM-ORT (Jewish School of Mexico City), recalls that from kindergarten on, the principal language taught and used in school was Yiddish.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Liora Rapoport.

This excerpt is in Spanish.

Liora Rapoport was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1975.