An Island Called Home : Returning to Jewish Cuba

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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 Eur...

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Autor principal: Behar, Ruth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Behar, Ruth.
Jews, Cuban.
Jews.
Cuban Americans.
Juifs > Cuba > Biographies.
Americains d'origine cubaine > Biographies.
Jews, Cuban > United States > Biography.
Jews > Cuba > Biography.
Cuban Americans > Biography.
United States.
Cuba.
Cuba > Biographies.
Cuba > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Running Away From Home To Run Toward Home; Part One: Blessings for the Dead; Chapter 1: Looking for Henry; Chapter 2: A Kaddish for The Jews Who Rest in Jewish Cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel's Mother Who Does Not; Part Two: Havana; Chapter 3: A Tour of Havana's Synagogues; Chapter 4: The Kosher Butcher Shop; Chapter 5: The Shirt That Holds Sadness; Chapter 6: Los Prinstein; Chapter 7: In The Realm of Lost Things; Chapter 8: How to Pack Your Suitcase; Chapter 9: Enrique Bender's Blue-Green Eyes Remind Me of My Grandfather; Chapter 10: The Dancing Turk.

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