An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba

by Ruth Behar

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 6611224238
  • ISBN13 9786611224233
  • Publish Date 1 October 2007 (first published 1 January 2007)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 29 December 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rutgers University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English