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An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba Hardcover - 2007

by Ruth Behar


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  • Title An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba
  • Author Ruth Behar
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 297
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date October 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780813541891 / 0813541891
  • Weight 2.12 lbs (0.96 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.26 x 7.34 x 0.92 in (26.06 x 18.64 x 2.34 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Cuban Americans, Cuba
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007008409
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

RUTH BEHAR is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellows award, she is the author of The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart and director of the documentary, Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love). Ruth's website is www.ruthbehar.com.

HUMBERTO MAYOL is an award-winning photographer living in Havana, Cuba. His work has been widely exhibited in Cuba, the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

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U.S.A.: Rutgers University Press, 2007. 2nd . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. b/w Photos. Gift inscribed and signed by author on half title page. 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 majority of the Jews opposed his communist regime and left in a mass exodus. Though they remade their lives in the United States, they mourned the loss of the Jewish community they had built on the island. As a child of five, Ruth Behar was caught up in the Jewish exodus from Cuba. Growing up in the United States, she wondered about the Jews who stayed behind. Who were they and why had they stayed? What traces… Read More
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