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Licensed Unlicensed Requires Authentication Published by Rutgers University Press 2007

34. The Last Jew of Palma Soriano

From the book An Island Called Home

  • Ruth Behar
https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813543864-036
© 2020 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick
From the book
An Island Called Home
An Island Called Home

Chapters in this book (48)

Frontmatter
Contents
Map of Cuba (showing places visited)
Running Away from Home to Run toward Home
Part One: Blessings for the Dead
1. Looking for Henry
2. A Kaddish for the Jews Who Rest in Jewish Cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel’s Mother Who Does Not
Part Two: Havana
3. A Tour of Havana’s Synagogues
4. The Kosher Butcher Shop
5. The Shirt That Holds Sadness
6. Los Prinstein
7. In the Realm of Lost Things
8. How to Pack Your Suitcase
9. Enrique Bender’s Blue-Green Eyes Remind Me of My Grandfather
10. The Dancing Turk
11. Monday Morning in Luyanó
12. Danayda Levy’s School Report
13. May Day with a Jewish Communist
14. The Whispering Writer
15. The Three Things José Martí Said All Real Men Must Do
16. Einstein in Havana
17. Salomón the Schnorrer
18. Mr. Fisher’s Twice-Yearly Gifts
19. Becoming Ruth Berezniak
20. After Everyone Has Left
21. The Ketubah That Became a Passport
22. When I See You Again There Will Be No Pain or Forgetting
Part Three: Traces
23. Traces
Part Four: In the Provinces
24. Simboulita’s Parakeet
25. Seven Jewish Weddings in Camagüey
26. Che Waits for a New Frame
27. Pearls Left in Cienfuegos
28. The Moses of Santa Clara
29. A Conversation Next to El Mamey
30. Villa Elisa
31. The Covenant of Abraham
32. Salvador’s Three Wives
33. A Beautiful Pineapple
34. The Last Jew of Palma Soriano
35. The Mizrahi Clan in Guantánamo
Part Five: Shalom to Cuba
36. Departures
37. My Room on Bitterness Street
How This Book Came to Be a Photojourney
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
List of Photographs
About the Author and Photographer
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