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☆ Opinion | Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?
  + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Ilan Stavans | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Mexico’s presidential campaign is well underway and if the polls are to be believed, Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist and candidate of the left-leaning ruling Morena party, could be the country’s next president. Ms. Sheinbaum, who is of Jewish descent, holds a staggering 30 percentage point lead over Xóchitl Gálvez, a tech entrepreneur of Indigenous descent. Ms. Sheinbaum, who lacks his charisma and political acumen, is seen as the continuator of his political project. If elected, Ms. Sheinbaum will be Mexico’s first Jewish president. As a Mexican of Jewish origin, I have seen with amazement and optimism how so many Mexicans, in a predominantly Catholic country, are backing someone of her gender and religious origin.
Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum, Ms, Sheinbaum, Xóchitl, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AMLO Organizations: Mexico’s Locations: Morena
☆ Opinion | Yiddish Is Having a Moment
  + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Ilan Stavans | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
For a language without a physical address that has come frighteningly close to extinction, Yiddish’s will to live seems inexhaustible. And streaming platforms like Netflix have released series, including “Shtisel,” “Unorthodox” and “Rough Diamonds,” fully or partially in Yiddish. Before World War II, approximately 13 million Jews, both secular and religious, spoke Yiddish. They aren’t multilingual, as secular Yiddish speakers always were. Whereas the part of my extended family who fled to New York and Chicago lost Yiddish along the way, Mexican Jews remained more in the community, continuing to use the language even as they remained secular.
Persons: “ Shtisel Organizations: Netflix Locations: Buenos Aires, Melbourne, United States, Israel, Mexico City, New York, Chicago
☆ These TikToks say Spanglish is a superpower
  + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +11 min
“I used to be the teacher that said to kids, ‘That’s not the way that you say it.’ No se dice así. “Speaking Spanglish is a superpower,” Medina says. Why he sees Spanglish as a strengthMedina says there are three ways Spanglish is spoken:• Alternating between English and Spanish in a sentence. Another expert calls Spanglish ‘the fastest growing hybrid language in the world’Medina isn’t the only expert making a case for Spanglish. “It’s very controversial,” Stavans says, noting that his work on Spanglish has drawn opposition from some who think its use undermines English and Spanish.
Persons: José Medina, Medina, ‘ That’s, ” Medina, he’d, he’s, hasn’t, ”, Spanglish, it’s, José, “, ’ ” Medina, Ilan Stavans, Stavans, ” Stavans, that’s, wasn’t, –, Joe, he’ll, didn’t, they’ve, He’s, ” Susana Frescas, she’s, “ It’s, It’s Organizations: CNN, Spanglish, José Medina Educational Solutions, Amherst College, San Elizario Independent, District, City University of New, Texas Association for Bilingual Education Locations: Texas, Spanglish, José Medina, Mexico, United States, Spain, El Paso , Texas, “, José, Medina, El Paso, City University of New York, Dallas , Texas, San Elizario
☆ Opinion | The Newest Immigrants Will Change American Spanish. That’s a Good Thing.
  + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Ilan Stavans | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Today the Spanish language is the fourth-most-spoken language in the world, and it is the most common language spoken in the United States after English. Then there is the Mexican population that lived here long before the United States claimed their land. Each wave infused American Spanish with local flavor. That’s partly because the language spoken in each country has unique characteristics, at the national and the regional level. American Spanish features all of these elements, which depend on the national background and geographic location of the speaker.
☆ How We the People Built American English
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Ilan Stavans | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Other ingredients are also required: a territory, a flag, a government, a currency, a postal service and so on. Of course, new languages don’t emerge from a vacuum. They evolve slowly from other languages, acquiring their own character only after a long process of decantation. George Bernard Shaw once purportedly said that England and the U.S. are separated by a common language. That separation is what American English has achieved, not without pain, over a period spanning more than four centuries.
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