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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleGolemito, 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...
View Article"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
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleFour 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...
View ArticleMariampol, 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...
View ArticleLearning 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...
View ArticleYiddish 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
View ArticleOn 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
View ArticleTo 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
View ArticleA (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...
View ArticleThe 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
View ArticleResuscitating 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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