Ruth Behar's An Island Called Home is a kaddish, an offering, dedicated to the exiles and to the children of the exiles and for those wandering still, searching for their homes. May they 'not be given up for lost.
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Ruth Behar's An Island Called Home is a kaddish, an offering, dedicated to the exiles and to the children of the exiles and for those wandering still, searching for their homes. May they 'not be given up for lost.
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Add this copy of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba to cart. $11.96, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Emerald rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Rutgers University Press.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0813541891. SIGNED and inscribed on the title page by Ruth Behar.; Tight and clean. Solid binding. A minor water damage to bottom of text block, otherwise a gently read book in Very Good condition. Now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library.; 7.25 X 1 X 10.25 inches; 297 pages; Signed by Author.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 10x7x1; Hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition. 1st printing (no later printings indicated). Publisher's postcard laid in. Ships in a box. Ships from NYC.
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Mayol, Humberto-photographer. As New in As New jacket. Book. Small Quarto. Inscribed by Author(s) xi (v), 297 (7) pp, photographs by Humberto Mayol. First Edition, 2007. Inscribed by the Author on Title Page. Map of Cuba (showing places visited); 37 chapters grouped in Five Parts as a Photojourney, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography, acknowledgements, about the author and the photographer. list of photographs, DJ Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7.5" x 10.25". Tan cloth with glossy blue lettering to spine. Pictorial dj in acetate protector.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author(s) Inscribed by the author on the title page. 297 pages, 263 photographs within the text. Gray cloth, tall octavo. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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b/w Photos. Fine in Near Fine jacket. Signed by Author(s) Gift inscribed and signed by author on half title page. 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 Jewish community they had built on the island. As a child of five, Ruth Behar was caught up in the Jewish exodus from Cuba. Growing up in the United States, she wondered about the Jews who stayed behind. Who were they and why had they stayed? What traces were left of the Jewish presence, of the cemeteries, synagogues, and Torahs? Who was taking care of this legacy? What Jewish memories had managed to survive the years of revolutionary atheism? An Island Called Home is the story of Behar's journey back to the island to find answers to these questions. Unlike the exotic image projected by the American media, Behar uncovers a side of Cuban Jews that is poignant and personal. Her moving vignettes of the individuals she meets are coupled with the sensitive photographs of Havana-based photographer Humberto Mayol, who traveled with her. Together, Behar's poetic and compassionate prose and Mayol's shadowy and riveting photographs create an unforgettable portrait of a community that many have seen though few have understood. This book is the first to show both the vitality and the heartbreak that lie behind the project of keeping alive the flame of Jewish memory in Cuba.
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