عنوان

<An island called home = island called home>

9780813541891 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0813541891 (hardcover : alk. paper)

90-9753

انگلیسی

: returning to Jewish Cuba

/ Ruth Behar .

; photographs by Humberto Mayol

New Brunswick, N.J.

: Rutgers University Press

, c2009.

xi, 297 p.

: ill., map

; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-287).

Looking for Henry -- A Kaddish for the Jews who rest in Jewish cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel's mother who does not -- A tour of Havana's synagogues -- The kosher butcher shop -- The shirt that holds sadness -- Los Prinstein -- In the realm of lost things -- How to pack your suitcase -- Enrique Bender's blue-green eyes remind me of my grandfather -- The dancing Turk -- Monday morning in Luyanó -- Danayda Levy's school report -- May Day with a Jewish communist -- The whispering writer -- The three things José Martí said all real men had to do -- Einstein in Havana -- Salomón the schnorrer -- Mr. Fisher's twice-yearly gifts -- Becoming Ruth Berezniak -- After everyone has left -- The ketubah that became a passport -- When I see you again there will be no pain or forgetting -- Traces -- Simboulita's parakeet -- Seven Jewish weddings in Camagüey -- Che waits for a new frame -- Pearls left in Cienfuegos -- The Moses of Santa Clara -- A conversation next to El Mamey -- Villa Elisa -- The pact with Abraham -- Salvador's three wives -- A beautiful pineapple -- The last Jew of Palma Soriano -- The Mizrahi clan in Guantánamo -- Departures -- My room on bitterness street.

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