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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.

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

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Isaac Becker, diamond cutter and part of the construction committee of the Colegio Israelita de Mexico, explains the continuation of the process of construction of the school.

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

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

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