An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba by Ruth Behar

An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba

Ruth Behar

320 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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