https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mexico-virtual-jewish-history-tour

Henry Belman Mexico city project

Like a BrideDownload

Like a bride by Rosa Nissán was originally published in 2002. It later recieved a movie adaptaition. It is a semi autobiagraphical tale from the point of view of a young Mexican Jewish girl. It examines the struggles of being jewish and of being a woman in Mexico in the mid 50s.

Various jewish locations and facets of jewish culture in mexico are touched upon in this book. the

Lagunilla Market on Comonfort Street is shown to be a hub of jewish life in Mexico city

In the begining especily, the shame of being jewish is brought up, and this also points to the aspects of gentile Mexicans not always knowing much about jews despite there being jews in Mexico city.

• 2  works of Jewish literature from any era from your city
  • Like a bride by Rosa Nissán
  • the Yiddish Columbus

• 2 portraits of Jews from your city any era (miniatures, paintings, silhouettes, daguerreotypes, photographs)
  •  Picture from a gravestone
• several of the portraits on grave stones depict their inhabinents in Charro suits. Charro suits are, to some, the ultimate expression of Mexican pride. This is cementing these Jewish dead as Mexican, which shows some degree of devotion to the nation.
  • Either a random picture of a random jew in Mexico city, or a photo of anita brenner in her big hat. 
• 3 Jewish objects from your city (gravestone, food, music, newspaper, ritual bath, judaica, house, marriage contract, etc.). One object must be a synagogue. 
  •  The three big synagogues in Mexico City built in the 40s
  • A newspaper article 
  • Maybe that confession of a judaizer

• 1  map of your city with at least 5 Jewish sites indicated on it
  • done
• 1 event that changed Jewish life in your city
  • The Spanish Inquisition (which caused the original jewish community to move there  and later adapt to life under it by the creation of the crypto jewish communities)
• Your exhibit should covers at least 3 historical eras of the five discussed in this class
  • 1492-1762, the Inquisition, crypto Jews, some of the connections to other places with similar jewish experences.
  • 1836-1912 (some of the immigration talk and the revolutionaries)
  •  1913-1945 (More of that and the synagogues)
  • 1946-present  (Literature and the map and wrap up)
• Three themes that you think are important for understanding Jewish life and literature in your city.
  •  The assimilations of Jews into life in Mexico city and why they are often overlooked
  •  How Jews shaped mexico city both for themselves and everyone
  • Why they came and what kinds of oppression they face.
• One connection or comparison to Jewish life/literature in a different city in your region.
  • The inquisition faced by Jews in both Mexico city and all other spanish colonial cities. 
    • Many Jews who Immigrated to the colonies to avoid the inquistion that was raging in spain found that it followed them to the new world. This created the custum of cripto jews, Jews who would publically convert but still practice Judasm in secret.
• One connection or comparison to Jewish life/literature in a city outside of your region (but is on the class list).
  • The surge in immagration after the holocaust?
  •  Cookbooks that integrate traditional jewish recipes with local flavors, that often differ depending on sepharidic and ashkenazi?
  • Maybe the rivalry between ashkenazi jews and sephardic jews and the hate of intermarrage, found everywhere