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.

An Appointment with President Echeverria: Permission to Build a Jewish Day School in Mexico

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Isaac Becker, diamond cutter and was part of the construction committee of the Colegio Israelita de Mexico (CIM-ORT Jewish Day School of Mexico), explains how it was only thanks to the former Mexican president Echeverria that the construction process of the school began.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Isaac Becker Kabacnik.

This excerpt is in Spanish.

Isaac Becker Kabacnik was born in 1929.

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Other video highlights from this oral history

Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Mizrahi and More: Jewish Communities in Mexico and the Role of the Central Committee

1 min 43 sec

Isaac Becker on the Construction of the Colegio Israelita de Mexico on the Lomas de Vista Hermosa Campus

2 min 30 sec

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