Placing the two exhibits in the same room, however, was neither dictated by a lack of space nor did it happen by chance. There are 1,200 Jews living in Cuba, a scant 10 percent of the community's number in 1959 on the eve of the Castro Revolution. Paul C. Margolis' 20 photographs provide some evidence of the community's resurgence, notably the pictures of Jacobo Berezniak's bar mitzvah in Havana, the second such ceremony in Cuba in 30 years. On the opposite wall, Tomas Stern's still lifes present contrast in more ways than the visual differences between color and black and white. A medical student, Stern has taken 45 photographs of Slovakian cemeteries and old synagogues that portray a community in decline.
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