Mexican President-Elect Has Litvak Roots

Mexican President-Elect Has Litvak Roots

Mexico’s presidential election Sunday saw two females face off with Claudia Sheinbaum winning by a significant majority. She becomes Mexico’s first female, first Jewish and first Litvak president. Her paternal grandparents immigrated to Mexico from Lithuania with her maternal grandparents coming from Bulgaria. Her father was a chemical engineer and her mother a biologist.