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.

Yiddish in Mexico Today: In the hearts of Yiddish students

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Liora Rapoport—coordinator of the library renovation project at CIM-ORT (Jewish School of Mexico City)—describes where Yiddish remains in Mexico today, in those who studied at school, as part of school hymn, and in majority of the food in homes.

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.