An island called home
Subtitle: returning to Jewish Cuba
By: Ruth Behar.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813541891
Subjects: Behar, Ruth, -- 1956-; Jews -- Cuba -- Biography; Cuban Americans -- Biography; Jews, Cuban -- United States -- Biography; Cuba -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Looking for Henry; title: A Kaddish for the Jews who rest in Jewish cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel's mother who does not; title: A tour of Havana's synagogues; title: The kosher butcher shop; title: The shirt that holds sadness; title: Los Prinstein; title: In the realm of lost things; title: How to pack your suitcase; title: Enrique Bender's blue-green eyes remind me of my grandfather; title: The dancing Turk; title: Monday morning in Luyanó; title: Danayda Levy's school report; title: May Day with a Jewish communist; title: The whispering writer; title: The three things José Martí said all real men had to do; title: Einstein in Havana; title: Salomón the schnorrer; title: Mr. Fisher's twice-yearly gifts; title: Becoming Ruth Berezniak; title: After everyone has left; title: The ketubah that became a passport; title: When I see you again there will be no pain or forgetting; title: Traces; title: Simboulita's parakeet; title: Seven Jewish weddings in Camagüey; title: Che waits for a new frame; title: Pearls left in Cienfuegos; title: The Moses of Santa Clara; title: A conversation next to El Mamey; title: Villa Elisa; title: The pact with Abraham; title: Salvador's three wives; title: A beautiful pineapple; title: The last Jew of Palma Soriano; title: The Mizrahi clan in Guantánamo; title: Departures; title: My room on bitterness street.