An Island Called Home : : Returning to Jewish Cuba /

An Island Called Home : : Returning to Jewish Cuba / / Ruth Behar.

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Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it “Hotel Cuba.” But then the years passed, and the many Jews who came there from Turkey, Poland, and war-torn Europe stayed...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Behar, Ruth,
MitwirkendeR:
Mayol, Humberto,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 145 b&w photos, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Map of Cuba (showing places visited)
  • Running Away from Home to Run toward Home
  • Part One: Blessings for the Dead
  • 1. Looking for Henry
  • 2. A Kaddish for the Jews Who Rest in Jewish Cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel’s Mother Who Does Not
  • Part Two: Havana
  • 3. A Tour of Havana’s Synagogues
  • 4. The Kosher Butcher Shop
  • 5. The Shirt That Holds Sadness
  • 6. Los Prinstein
  • 7. In the Realm of Lost Things
  • 8. How to Pack Your Suitcase
  • 9. Enrique Bender’s Blue-Green Eyes Remind Me of My Grandfather
  • 10. The Dancing Turk
  • 11. Monday Morning in Luyanó
  • 12. Danayda Levy’s School Report
  • 13. May Day with a Jewish Communist
  • 14. The Whispering Writer
  • 15. The Three Things José Martí Said All Real Men Must Do
  • 16. Einstein in Havana
  • 17. Salomón the Schnorrer
  • 18. Mr. Fisher’s Twice-Yearly Gifts
  • 19. Becoming Ruth Berezniak
  • 20. After Everyone Has Left
  • 21. The Ketubah That Became a Passport
  • 22. When I See You Again There Will Be No Pain or Forgetting
  • Part Three: Traces
  • 23. Traces
  • Part Four: In the Provinces
  • 24. Simboulita’s Parakeet
  • 25. Seven Jewish Weddings in Camagüey
  • 26. Che Waits for a New Frame
  • 27. Pearls Left in Cienfuegos
  • 28. The Moses of Santa Clara
  • 29. A Conversation Next to El Mamey
  • 30. Villa Elisa
  • 31. The Covenant of Abraham
  • 32. Salvador’s Three Wives
  • 33. A Beautiful Pineapple
  • 34. The Last Jew of Palma Soriano
  • 35. The Mizrahi Clan in Guantánamo
  • Part Five: Shalom to Cuba
  • 36. Departures
  • 37. My Room on Bitterness Street
  • How This Book Came to Be a Photojourney
  • Chronology
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Photographs
  • About the Author and Photographer

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