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| #529781 in Books | Rutgers University Press | 2009-01-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.90 x.80 x6.90l,1.70 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Cuba, Then and Now: A Dialogue Between Memoir and Photogrpahy.|By Beverly C Rosen|Part memoir, part travelogue, part anthropological study, and all heart, Ruth Behar returns to Cuba where she was born and left at 5 years old in 1959, after the Revolution. She returns a number of times, between 2002-2006, in search of her roots and the stories of the Jews who remain in Cuba. Her|From Publishers Weekly|A professor at the University of Michigan, Behar seeks a better understanding of her roots and of the Jewish experience in her native Cuba. Traversing the island, Behar becomes a confidante to myriad Jewish strangers. Through one-on-one in
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 in Cuba. The beloved island ceased to be a hotel, and Cuba eventually became “home.” But after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, the majorit...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba | Ruth Behar. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.