Cuban Jewish Journeys
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Cuban Jewish Journeys
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Author : Caroline Bettinger-López
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2000
Cuban Jewish Journeys written by Caroline Bettinger-López and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Between ten and fifteen thousand persons of Cuban-Jewish heritage currently live in Miami. Until now, however, this vibrant community and its unique traditions have, to a large extent, escaped the notice of ethnographers, historians, and other scholars. In Cuban-Jewish Journeys, Caroline Bettinger-López remedies that neglect with an engaging, in-depth look at a people whose rich mix of cultures confounds typical ethnic images. The author begins by investigating the history and development of the Cuban-Jewish community, tracing its origins back to Jewish enclaves in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Mediterranean. She explores how these people came to Cuba in the first half of the twentieth century and how they eventually resettled in the United States as part of the larger Cuban migration that followed Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. In recounting this history, Bettinger-López draws heavily on numerous stories told to her by Cuban Jews in Miami and elsewhere. Those oral histories also form the basis of Bettinger-López's subsequent exploration of the identity and assimilation issues facing "Jewbans" (as many in Miami began calling themselves in the 1970s). She found that place and date of birth, for instance, may affect an individual's identification with a particular homeland and political ideology, which may in turn influence how the individual "remembers" Cuban-Jewish history. The future of Miami's Jewban community, she suggests, now lies in the hands of a generation that, for the most part, has grown up within the United States. Already, the community is transforming itself linguistically, culturally, and religiously to accommodate the younger generation. Skillfully interweaving historical analysis, personal reflections, inter-generational stories, theories of diaspora, photographs, and current debates on ethnographic writing, Cuban-Jewish Journeys will appeal not only to scholars but to anyone interested in the ever-changing face of multicultural America. The Author: Caroline Bettinger-López, a native of Miami, studied anthropology at the University of Michigan. Since her graduation, she has worked in various teaching and social-service positions in Miami. Most recently, she has taught disadvantaged children in Haiti.
Cuba
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Author : Errol Daniels
language : en
Publisher: Errol Daniels Photography
Release Date : 2003
Cuba written by Errol Daniels and has been published by Errol Daniels Photography this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Cuba categories.
This project was developed and implemented through PROYART, which operates under the auspices of UNEAC, the Cuban Association of Artists and Writers. PROYART is a program involving all sapects of cultural exchange between the USA and Cuba, including architecture, art, photography, and the performing arts. Architect Emilio Escobar of Havana is President of the Cuban chapter of PROYART, and his wife Thelma Esnard, is General Coordinator.
An Island Called Home
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Author : Ruth Behar
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-01
An Island Called Home written by Ruth Behar and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Journey Of Rabbi And Rachel Abramowitz
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Author : Mona Mandel Abramowitz
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-04-11
The Journey Of Rabbi And Rachel Abramowitz written by Mona Mandel Abramowitz and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Rabbi Mayer and Rachel Abramowitz are beloved fixtures on the Miami scene. They have that special quality: when you meet you immediately respect them and consider them close friends. But they only became fixtures in one place after they journeyed through many. Their unique story begins in Rachel’s Polish shtetl and Mayer’s youth in British-ruled Palestine. The political climate and world events took Mayer to the United States and Rachel to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. In the often strange but wondrous flow of Jewish life, it was in a camp for displaced Jews in Germany that their very different journeys merged into one. There were other stops geographically, but their journey is really about the life they made. It’s about surviving WW II through fortitude and fortune, and then helping to smuggle Jews out of Europe to Israel. It’s about being the prime force in establishing the Cuban Jewish community in South Florida, and building Jewish institutions in Miami, Israel and throughout the world. It’s about creating a family that continues their legacy. In reading the stories of Rabbi and Rachel Abramowitz, you will travel through Jewish history. As they touched the lives of so many on a personal level, they found themselves on a historical journey. These are their stories. This is our history. The journey continues.
T A Fortuna S New Home
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Author : Ruth Behar
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2022-01-25
T A Fortuna S New Home written by Ruth Behar and has been published by Knopf Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-25 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A poignant multicultural ode to family and what it means to create a home as one girl helps her Tía move away from her beloved Miami apartment. When Estrella's Tía Fortuna has to say goodbye to her longtime Miami apartment building, The Seaway, to move to an assisted living community, Estrella spends the day with her. Tía explains the significance of her most important possessions from both her Cuban and Jewish culture, as they learn to say goodbye together and explore a new beginning for Tía. A lyrical book about tradition, culture, and togetherness, Tía Fortuna's New Home explores Tía and Estrella's Sephardic Jewish and Cuban heritage. Through Tía's journey, Estrella will learn that as long as you have your family, home is truly where the heart is.
From Havana To Minneapolis
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Author : Rachelle L. Lisogurski
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2008
From Havana To Minneapolis written by Rachelle L. Lisogurski and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1968, at age seventeen, Rachelle Lisogurski left her native land, Cuba, and her familyawithout knowing if she would ever see them againavia Spain, sponsored by the Israeli Embassy in Madrid, in order to avoid the military draft and live in a free country. She left behind the Cuban-Jewish community of her childhood, a community that no longer exists, to go to the United States. Rachelle describes vividly how life changed in Cuba as a result of Castroas revolution, and how she was eventually reunited with her family. Her story starts with her upbringing in an upper-middle-class family of privilege, to being an ostracized exile, to becoming a clinical psychologist. Dr. Lisogurski takes us on her journey from Havana to Madrid, then New York, Los Angeles, and finally Minneapolis. From Havana to Minneapolis: The Journey of a Cuban-Jewish Girl is a eulogy for the Cuban-Jewish community of the 1950s, and an unforgettable memoir dedicated to all Cubans in exile, both Jews and Catholics. Born in Havana in 1950, Dr. Rachelle Lisogurski earned her Master of Arts in counseling psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago in 1988, became a licensed psychologist from the Minnesota Board of Psychology in 1993, and earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Capella University in Minneapolis in 2006. Dr. Lisogurski has twenty years of experience as a psychotherapist, providing assessment services in both English and Spanish. She took advantage of a year of sabbatical to write this book, her first without citations. Dr. Lisogurski resides in Minneapolis with her sister, Pearl.
Tropical Diaspora
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Author : Robert M. Levine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Tropical Diaspora written by Robert M. Levine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
"This unique, well-documented social history invites the reader to explore Cuban Jewry as a fascinating chronicle and to 'capture the flavor of their lives.' This is made possible by Levine's ability to write a text composed of carefully collated data, excellent illustrations, and oral testimonies. Levine's book contributes to an understanding of Cuban Jewry's unique setting -- starting from colonial times, through its second American diaspora following the 1959 communist revolution. ... Levine traces several stages of Jewish immigration to Cuba, starting with American businessmen rapidly integrated ... in some cases, into the Cuban upper class; Sephardic emigrants from Turkey, who were more socially accepted by Creole and other ethnic groups; ... and thousands of East European Jews arriving after 1924, who perceived the island as a kind of 'immigration hotel' on their way to America. ... Levine devotes two fascinating chapters to Jewish refugees escaping to Cuba before and during World War II. The tragic journey of 973 refugees carried by the St. Louis, whose landing permit had been retroactively denied by the Cuban government, is told by Levine through both dramatic oral testimonies and archival documentation." --Florida Historical Quarterly
Traveling Heavy
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Author : Ruth Behar
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-24
Traveling Heavy written by Ruth Behar and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open heart, she writes about her Yiddish-Sephardic-Cuban-American family, as well as the strangers who show her kindness as she makes her way through the world. Compassionate, curious, and unafraid to reveal her failings, Behar embraces the unexpected insights and adventures of travel, whether those be learning that she longed to become a mother after being accused of giving the evil eye to a baby in rural Mexico, or going on a zany pilgrimage to the Behar World Summit in the Spanish town of Béjar. Behar calls herself an anthropologist who specializes in homesickness. Repeatedly returning to her homeland of Cuba, unwilling to utter her last goodbye, she is obsessed by the question of why we leave home to find home. For those of us who travel heavy with our own baggage, Behar is an indispensable guide, full of grace and hope, in the perpetual search for connection that defines our humanity.
Letters From Cuba
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Author : Ruth Behar
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-08-25
Letters From Cuba written by Ruth Behar and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Pura Belpré Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a young Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, while she works to rescue the rest of her family The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, so Esther promises to write down everything that happens until they're reunited. And she does, recording both the good--the kindness of the Cuban people and her discovery of a valuable hidden talent--and the bad: the fact that Nazism has found a foothold even in Cuba. Esther's evocative letters are full of her appreciation for life and reveal a resourceful, determined girl with a rare ability to bring people together, all the while striving to get the rest of their family out of Poland before it's too late. Based on Ruth Behar's family history, this compelling story celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in the most challenging times.
The Seventh Heaven
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Author : Ilan Stavans
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2019-10-01
The Seventh Heaven written by Ilan Stavans and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with History categories.
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul’s explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.