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.

Progressive Education at "La Naye" I. L. Peretz Yiddish School in Mexico City

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Talia Margolis Chomstein, a Yiddish activist based in Mexico City, reflects on her experience the I. L. Peretz Yiddish School (known as "la Naye").

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Talia Margolis Chomstein.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Talia Margolis Chomstein was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1989.