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.

Growing Up Jewish in Mexico

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Chava Turniansky, professor emeritus of Yiddish literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, recounts growing up in Mexico City and the role of Yiddish among the Jewish population there.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Chava Turniansky.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Chava Turniansky was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1937.

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