Frida Grapa-Cielak is the author of the Yiddish set of Workbooks for beginners ARELE and author of the commemorative 40 year history book about the Yiddish School in Mexico City, named Nuevo Colegio Israelita I.L.Peretz. The book is called: El Libro del Recuerdo, 40 años de la Naye dedicated to the school where she studied, worked and collaborated, the school for which she felt such a deep affection for. An affection and love that her parents, cofounders of the school and dedicated activists, transmitted to her. Born in Mexico City, she grew up in a Yiddish speaking home, attended Yiddish Day School where she had the luck of having been a student of the well known Yiddish writer and pedagogue, Prof. Abraham Golomb, who influenced her life as did, also the well known Lerers Yosef Rotenberg and Leybl Bayon.

Since she was a child she decided, that she was going to be a Lererke. She pursued her dreams and fullfilled her goal by studying at the Jewish Seminar for teachers and by returning as a Yiddish teacher to her childhood school.

For more than two decades, her life was centered on her family and this Naye Yiddishe Shul. Besides being a student and and Yiddish teacher, a mother and a collaborator at that school, she was the founder and organizer of the Audiovisual Center and the Children's Library. Both were named "Julio Grapa" in memory of her father, as they were donated to the school by her husband Moises Cielak and her mother, Esther Markuchamer-Grapa.

It was here, at the Audiovisual Center and at the time that her youngest son was starting to learn how to read and write Yiddish, that she ventured into trying to create a new kind of Yiddish learning material. One that could compare to those existing for the teaching of other languages, something modern and attractive. ARELE was the result of such an endeavor. She dedicated ARELE first to her son David who was then in first grade, and then -when printed, to her family: husband, 3 sons and parents.