Roma, Mexico City area of Oscar frontrunner, was a Jewish neighborhood
Thousands of Syrian Jews lived in there from the 1920s to the 1950s, creating a small version of their Middle Eastern homeland within its streets and plazas — and their legacy lives on there today.
Writer Laura Sosa, 33, watches the film "Roma" projected at Los Pinos Presidential residence which was turned into a cultural centre by order of Mexico's new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico City, Mexico, December 13, 2018(photo credit: REUTERS/ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI)ByJTA/ALAN GRABINSKY
