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List Of Mexican Jews
Mexico has had a Jewish population since the early New Spain, Colonial Era. However, these early individuals could not openly worship as they were persecuted by the Spanish Inquisition for practicing Judaism. After achieving independence, Mexico eventually adopted freedom of religion and began receiving Jewish immigrants, many of them refugees. The book ''1900–1950'' has records of almost 18,300 who emigrated to Mexico between 1900 and 1950. Most (7,023) were Ashkenazi Jews whose ancestors had settled in Eastern Europe, mainly Poland. A further 2,640 Jews arrived from either Spain or the Ottoman Empire and 1,619 came from Cuba and the United States. The 2010 Census recorded 67,476 individuals professing Judaism, most of whom live in Mexico City. The following is a list of notable past and present Mexican Jews (not all with both parents Jewish, nor all practising Judaism), arranged by their main field of activity. Academia * Adina Cemet – sociologist, author, essayist. * Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( ; Nahuatl: ''Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl''), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain. It was one of several domains established during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquest of the Americas, and had its capital in Mexico City. Its jurisdiction comprised a large area of the southern and western portions of North America, mainly what became Mexico and the Southwestern United States, but also California, Florida and Louisiana (New Spain), Louisiana; Central America as Mexico, the Caribbean like Hispaniola and Martinique, Martinica, and northern parts of South America, even Colombia; several Pacific archipelagos, including the Philippines and Guam. Additional Asian colonies included "Spanish Formosa", on the island of Taiwan. After the 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, conqueror Hernán Cortés named the territory New S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Kleinbort Krauze
Helen Kleinbort Krauze (August 1, 1925 – November 12, 2024) was a Polish-born Mexican Jewish journalist who worked for over five decades as an interviewer, features and travel writer and columnist. She was first with '' Novedades'', later with ''El Heraldo de México'' and more recently with ''Sol de Mexico'' and ''Protocolo'' magazine. Background Helen Krauze arrived in Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico, when she was a small child with her Jewish-immigrant parents, José Kleinbort and Eugenia Firman, via Santander, Spain to seek refuge from the German invasion of Poland, the Holocaust, and the war persecution of Jews elsewhere. She attended Maddox Academy, a bilingual Spanish-English school, and later earned a degree in English literature from the University of Cambridge. Krauze lived in Mexico City, and was the mother of one daughter and two sons, including Enrique Krauze, a Mexican historian and writer. She died in Mexico City on November 12, 2024, at the age of 99. Career Before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Zohn
Alejandro Zohn Rosenthal (born Alexander Zohn; 8 August 1930 – 4 August 4 2000) was a Mexican architect of Austrian-Jewish origin. His works are renowned for the contributions to modern architecture in Mexico, particularly in Guadalajara where his works such as the San Juan de Dios Market have left a lasting impact on Mexico's modernist architecture. Early life and education Zohn was born in Vienna, Austria, to Haica Rosenthal Eisenstein, a pharmaceutical chemist and professor, and Jakob Hersch Zohn Wurn, an accountant and businessman. Following Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany, his family fled to Mexico in 1939 after his father's release from the Dachau concentration camp. They settled in San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Jalisco. He completed his primary and secondary education at Colegio Cervantes in Guadalajara before enrolling in the University of Guadalajara's Faculty of Engineering. Drawn by his interest in classical music, aesthetics, and design, he transferred to the School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Zabludovsky (architect)
Abraham Zabludovsky (born Abraham Zabludowski Kraveski; June 14, 1924 – April 9, 2003) was a Mexican architect. He was the brother of the well known journalist Jacobo Zabludovsky. Abraham Zabludovsky was born in Białystok, Poland. He studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, graduating in 1949. In his early years he produced a large number of outstanding residential buildings and offices in Mexico City, making rigorous use of the International style and demonstrating an impeccable handling of contemporary design, techniques and materials. Also notable from this period was the Centro Cívico Cinco de Mayo (1962), Puebla, on which he collaborated with Guillermo Rossell. In 1968 Zabludovsky began working in collaboration with Teodoro González de León, although the two architects continued to work on some projects individually and retained their separate stylistic identities. Their collaborative work was remarkable for its quality and maturity, establishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Topelson De Grinberg
Sara Topelson de Grinberg (assumedly born in the beginning of 1945) is a Polish-born Mexican architect. Biography Topelson is born to a Russian father and a Polish mother. Her family fled Nazism to Mexico, when she was three months old.Eugenia Alvarez''Sara Topelson de Grinberg; la mexicana que preside a los arquitectos del mundo.''(Spanish), September 1, 1996. She studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), architectural theory at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and history of art at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA). Together with her husband José Grinberg she established the architecture bureau ''Grinberg & Topelson Arquitectos'', and created together with him several residential, educational, industrial, commercial and cultural buildings, as well as recreation centers. She was professor of history of art at the Universidad Anáhuac and of its atelier of urban planning architecture. As profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Roemer
Andrés Roemer Slomianski (born July 12, 1963) is a Mexican writer, former ambassador to UNESCO, and fugitive. As of 2021 Andrés Roemer has ceased his collaboration with UNESCO after 61 women accused him of rape and sexual abuse. He is currently under investigation by the Mexican authorities and awaits extradition hearings in Israel. Early life and education Roemer is the grandson of orchestra German Jewish conductor Ernesto Roemer, who emigrated to Mexico in 1938, and grew up in Mexico City. He completed a BA in economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City (1983 to 1987) and a Bachelor in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, 1983–1987). Roemer also has a Ph.D. in public policy (1991 to 1994) from the Goldman School of Public Policy of University of California at Berkeley. Career Academic positions From 1987 until 2000, Roemer worked as professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (IT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Mayer-Serra
Otto Mayer-Serra (1904 in Barcelona, Spain – 1968 in Mexico City), was a Spanish-Mexican musicologist known for being one of the first musicologist to write a systematic study of 20th century Mexican music. Life His father was a German of Jewish origin. He was later adopted by the Spanish family Serra in 1934 when he became Spanish citizen. Mayer-Serra studied music in Barcelona, although his music education came from the German and French school. While living in Barcelona, he became a music critic and during the Spanish Civil War he worked in the music department for the support of the Generalitat. In 1937 his ''Cancionero Revolucionario Internacional'' (International and revolutionary Songbook) was published, in which he collected many revolutionary songs of the time by composers such as Silvestre Revueltas and Rodolfo Halffter. He joined the music magazine ''Música'', which had important support from the official Spanish government. There he published the first Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katya Mandoki
Katya Mandoki is a Mexican-Israeli scholar of philosophy, author and experimental artist. Career Mandoki pioneered the systematic research of Everyday Aesthetics coining the term "Prosaics" (1994) for this subfield of Aesthetics. In her book ''Everyday Aesthetics'', the first extended treatment of this subject, she opens up the study of aesthetics – traditionally confined to art and beauty – to encompass all those aspects involving sensibility in common experience using the human body as a starting point for this analysis. Her work covers not only the positive aspect of aesthetics but also its negative side such as cruelty and abuse upon someone's sensibility, never before thought of in those terms. She stresses the danger of political manipulation of sensibility illustrated by the propagandistic use of aesthetics specifically during the Nazi regime. From Mandoki's work on the negativity of aesthetics Arnold Berleant takes off to analyze this issue in relation to terro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Leff
Enrique Leff (born 1946) is a Mexican economist, environmental sociologist and environmentalist. He has written 25 books and 180 articles on political ecology, environmental sociology, environmental economics, environmental epistemology and environmental education. He is regarded as one of the key environmental thinkers in Latin America. Background After a degree in chemical engineering from UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in 1968. Leff graduated with a Doctorat de Troisième Cycle in development economics from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, in 1975. Leff lectured at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) full-time from 1973-1986 before becoming coordinator of the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (1986-2008) and coordinator of the Mexico City office of the Regional Office of Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment Programme (2007-2008). In 2008 he returned full-time as profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Cazés
Daniel Cazés Menache (13 September 1939, México City – 20 December 2012) was a Mexican anthropologist and gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field n ... scholar. Works *"Indigenismo en México. Pasado y presente", en ''Historia y sociedad'' (1963) *"El pueblo matlatzinca de[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Botton
Flora Botton Beja (born 1 March 1933) is a Mexican sinologist and gender studies scholar. She was born in Greece, but acquired Spanish nationality through her parents and naturalized as Mexican after her arrival in Mexico in 1949. She was a co-founder of the gender studies and a pioneer of Oriental studies programs at El Colegio de México. She was one of the first academics to focus on China in Mexico and Latin America. Her works have widely been influential in the region and she was one of the founders of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios de Asia y África (Latin-American Association of Asian and African Studies). Early life and education Flora Botton was born on 1 March 1933 in Thessaloniki, Greece, to Spanish nationals, Sara Beja and Jaime Botton (Botón) Saporta, who dealt in the textile industry. Her family were part of the Sephardic Jewish diaspora. When she was seven, Thessaloniki became an occupied territory, first by Italy and then in 1941 by the Nazis. Assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larissa Adler Lomnitz
Larissa Adler Lomnitz ( Milstein; 17 June 1932 - 13 April 2019) was a French-born Chilean-Mexican social anthropologist, researcher, professor, and academic. After living in France, Colombia, and Israel, she received Chilean nationality by marriage and Mexican nationality by residence. She conducted research and studies regarding the way in which marginalized classes survive in Latin America. She pioneered the study of social networks and the study of the importance of trust for the economy and politics. Her first study in this regard focused on the exchange of favors in the Chilean middle class. Lomnitz completed her doctoral thesis about the importance of exchanging favors and confidence in the informal economy in Mexico City. She then explored the importance of social networks in very diverse fields: scientific communities, the Mexican upper class, and the teaching profession in Chile, among others. She wrote more than 70 chapters in books, nine books, and various popular artic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
