An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba [SIGNED COPY] by Ruth Behar - 2007

Rutgers University Press, 2007-10-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x7x1. Hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition. 1st printing (no later printings indicated). Publisher's postcard laid in. Ships in a box. Fast shipping from NYC!

Rutgers University Press, 2007-10-01. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean, sturdy hardcover w/jacket. Light edge-wear and tear on jacket. WF

Rutgers University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; Second Printing. Hard Cover. 0813541891 . SIGNED and inscribed on the title page by Ruth Behar. ; Tight and clean. Solid binding. A minor water damage to bottom of text block, otherwise a gently read book in Very Good condition. Now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; 7.25 X 1 X 10.25 inches; 297 pages; Signed by Author .

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2007. 1st. hardcover. Tall 8vo, 297 pp. .

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Book. Illus. by Mayol, Humberto - photographer. As New. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First American Edition. Small Quarto. xi (v), 297 (7) pp, photographs by Humberto Mayol. First Edition, 2007. Inscribed by the Author on Title Page. Map of Cuba (showing places visited); 37 chapters grouped in Five Parts as a Photojourney, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography, acknowledgements, about the author and the photographer. list of photographs, DJ Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7.5" x 10.25". Tan cloth with glossy blue lettering to spine. Pictorial dj in acetate protector..

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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