Looking for Henry -- A Kaddish for the Jews who rest in Jewish cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel's mother who does not -- A tour of Havana's synagogues -- The kosher butcher shop -- The shirt that holds sadness -- Los Prinstein -- In the realm of lost things -- How to pack your …
This is the story of the author's return to learn about and meet the people who are keeping Judaism alive in Cuba today.
"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 …
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 w…
En 1980, un inexperto Leonardo Padura ingresaba a la redacción de El caimán Barbudo, publicación de los jóvenes creadores cubanos financiada por el Estado. Junto a un grupo de colegas insinuaron una renovación, que tres años después motivó la expulsión de estos inquietos intelec…