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A report of the activities of the Nidkhei Israel congregation in Mexico for the year 1957. The Nidkhei Israel congregation started as an immigrant benevolent society and congregation in 1922, with a congregation mostly immigrants from Russia. By the 1930's the Nidkhei Israel congregation had subdivided its activities into credit, schooling (Talmud Tora), and later support for the Yiddische Shule, Gmilas Khesed fund, and most important, the cemetery.
The Ashkenazi Jews arrived in Mexico at the beginning of the twentieth century. Being few in number, they prayed in the same small place as Jews of Sephardi descent. Yet differences between both groups appeared almost immediately because of the different styles of prayer service. These differences forced the Ashkenazi Jews to leave and search for a place of their own. This event can be considered as the initiation of the Ashkenazi Kehila in Mexico, which occurred in 1922. |
