| Description |
1 online resource (316 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 Jewis |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Behar, Ruth
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Cuban Americans -- Biography
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Jews -- Cuba -- Biography
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Jews, Cuban -- United States -- Biography
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Cuban Americans
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Jews
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Jews, Cuban
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| SUBJECT |
Cuba -- Biography
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| Subject |
Cuba
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813543864 |
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081354386X |
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