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.

Curiosity and Ignorance About Yiddish Books During the Library Renovation of Mexico City's CIM-ORT

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Liora Rapoport—coordinator of library renovation project at CIM-ORT (Jewish School of Mexico City)—describes young children's curiosity about books and older children's inability to distinguish between Yiddish and Hebrew.

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.