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New Jewish Documentation Center, Containing 100 Years of Jewish Life in Mexico City, Opens This Week

JL;DR SUMMARY The Jewish Documentation Center (JDC) in Mexico City has reopened in the Rodfe Sedek synagogue, housing a treasure trove of archival material documenting over a century of Jewish life in the city. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryEarthquakeDiversityCommunityMexico CityAshkenaziSyrian JewsArchivesUnesco Memory Of The WorldJewish Documentation Center

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Mexico City, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
"A catastrophic 1985 earthquake that killed thousands of people in Mexico City and destroyed the (back-then) Jewish neighborhoods of Roma and Condesa also left the archives of the Ashkenazi community in a state of complete disarray."
Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico
"I recently met Chmelnik in his temporary headquarters, provided by the Syrian Jewish community in the suburban neighborhood of Tecamachalco, where most Jews now live."
New York, United States
"On top of a cupboard was collection of Yiddish-script typewriters, including a Remington Portable produced in the 1940s in New York"

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