Growing Up Jewish in Mexico

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.
To see the full interview and learn more about the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, visit:
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[@mmkjijhuks1841]

What an interesting story. Mexico is in North America though.

[@nromk]

Culturally and politically we have a lot more in common with South America than with North America

[@Studiosmediamilk]

​@@nromkStill it is very different from south america, and geographically we are North America.

[@rubennava5229]

Question did did king David speack Yiddish ? or was it add on to beutiful hebrew language

[@ellemueller]

King David spoke ancient Hebrew about 2,600 years ago.
Yiddish only began to exist about 1,000 years ago

[@Lit8472]

kanst du mir sagen wo die Juden in Mexico wohnen

[@sebastianhernz3752]

Polanco, Zona Rosa, La Condesa, La Merced, Oberschichtviertel in der Nähe des historischen Zentrums von Mexiko-Stadt, sehr gemischt mit den Gemeinschaften der Auswanderer aus dem Libanon.

[@TheLittleRussian2]

So what caused the ultimate demise of Yiddish in Latin America?

[@thekingofmoney2000]

The same reason it diminished in the US...assimilation.

[@iseytheteethsnake6290]

I see MANY jews when traveling to Mexico. Problably because of being on airport. But when buyng products based of mexico city theres always a (kmd) kosher mexico. So that means there a lot of jews problably more than what she said.

[@darkxxking]

@@iseytheteethsnake6290 there’s 80,000 Jews in Mexico. The country with the least intermixing actually

[@elle7981]

I’m Mexican and got 1% European Jew (ashkenazi)

[@n8c438]

@@elle7981 me too!

[@godschild8995]

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