An island called home : returning to Jewish Cuba / / Ruth Behar ; photographs by Humberto Mayol.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 297 p. :; ill., map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Looking for Henry
- A Kaddish for the Jews who rest in Jewish cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel's mother who does not
- A tour of Havana's synagogues
- The kosher butcher shop
- The shirt that holds sadness
- Los Prinstein
- In the realm of lost things
- How to pack your suitcase
- Enrique Bender's blue-green eyes remind me of my grandfather
- The dancing Turk
- Monday morning in Luyano
- Danayda Levy's school report
- May Day with a Jewish communist
- The whispering writer
- The three things Jose Marti said all real men had to do
- Einstein in Havana
- Salomon the schnorrer
- Mr. Fisher's twice-yearly gifts
- Becoming Ruth Berezniak
- After everyone has left
- The ketubah that became a passport
- When I see you again there will be no pain or forgetting
- Traces
- Simboulita's parakeet
- Seven Jewish weddings in Camaguey
- Che waits for a new frame
- Pearls left in Cienfuegos
- The Moses of Santa Clara
- A conversation next to El Mamey
- Villa Elisa
- The pact with Abraham
- Salvador's three wives
- A beautiful pineapple
- The last Jew of Palma Soriano
- The Mizrahi clan in Guantanamo
- Departures
- My room on bitterness street.