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.

Vision for A Collection of Yiddish Works Written in Mexico

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Liora Rapoport—coordinator of the library renovation project at CIM-ORT (Jewish School of Mexico City)—describes how the effort to sort and send some 8000 Yiddish books to the Yiddish Book Center promotes Yiddish and is an opportunity to analyze a collection of Yiddish works written in Mexico, during a specific period.

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.