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El Iluminado: The Story of Luis de Carabajal

EX427_2612 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about his graphic novel El Iluminado (a collaboration with artist Steve Sheinkin), which tells the story of crypto-Jew Luis de Carabajal, who was...

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The Jewish Grandparents' Kiss in the Square of a Spanish Inquisition Burning

EX427_2614 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about the history of crypto- and Sephardi Jews in Mexico, as well as the Jewish-Mexican experience more broadly, and relates the story of the...

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Golemito, the Nahuatl Golem

EX427_2615 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, describes his children's book Golemito, inspired by Eastern European Jewish mythology, the Nahuatl poetry he grew up reading, and his adventures with his...

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"I Think I Am Here in Order to Think": Ilan Stavans on Jewishness,...

EX427_2617 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, discusses freedom, emotion, and "the Jewishness of thinking together with others."More from this narrator: Ilan Stavans

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The Jewish Geography of Mexico City

EX427_2605  lan Stavans, academic and writer, describes the growth and development of Mexico City's Jewish community, including the neighborhoods where different generations lived.More from this...

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My Father, "Rebel" Actor of the Mexican Jewish Community

EX427_2606 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about his parents' lives and professions, and how they diverged sharply from what was expected in the Mexican Jewish community.More from this...

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Four Languages Coexisting in Jewish Mexican Life

EX427_2608 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, recalls the the linguistic divisions of his childhood: Spanish spoken here, Yiddish there, and never the twain shall meet. Then Hebrew and English began...

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Mariampol, Mexico City, and Marriage

EX464_2811 David Epstein, a 2013 Yidish-Vokh participant, shares the story of how his father, from a shtetl in Ukraine, met his cosmopolitan mother, who hailed from the city of Bialystok, in Mexico...

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Learning Yiddish in a Jewish Day School in Mexico City

EX461_2095 Arturo Kerbel-Shein, Yiddish language activist, remembers learning Yiddish in his Jewish day school in Mexico City and recounts how kindergartners would speak to each other in Yiddish and...

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Yiddish and Hebrew in Mexico

EX416_2096 Arturo Kerbel-Shein, Yiddish language activist, tells how Yiddish and Hebrew have always coexisted in the Jewish community in Mexico.More from this narrator: Arturo Kerbel-Shein

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On the Decline of Yiddish Language Education and Rise in Assimilation in Mexico

EX461_2097 Arturo Kerbel-Shein, Yiddish language activist, argues that no longer teaching Yiddish in Mexican-Jewish day schools is a form of assimilation.More from this narrator: Arturo Kerbel-Shein

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To Be Jewish and Mexican

EX461_2098 Arturo Kerbel-Shein, Yiddish language activist, discusses his identity as both a Jew and a Mexican - and how the two coexist.More from this narrator: Arturo Kerbel-Shein

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A (Jewish Mexican) Family that Values Tradition, but Isn't Religious

EX461_2093 Arturo Kerbel-Shein, Yiddish language activist, describes the Jewish identity of his Mexico City-based family, which is not religious but values Jewish culture and history.More from this...

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The Jewish Community in Mexico

EX461_2094 Arturo Kerbel-Shein, Yiddish language activist, describes the various groups and organizations that make up today's Mexican Jewish community.More from this narrator: Arturo Kerbel-Shein

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Resuscitating a Tradition: Bringing a Zamir Chorus Back to its Roots in Lodz,...

EX531_3263 Joshua Jacobson, professor of music at Northeastern University and founder / artistic director of Zamir Chorale of Boston, speaks about his choir's travels through Europe in celebration of...

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