An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba

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[ 279 ] notes Running Away from Home to Run toward Home 1. Jaime Sarusky, Los fantasmas de Omaja (Havana: Girón, 1986). 2. Robert M. Levine, Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993), 33. 3. Hugh Thomas, Cuba:The Pursuit of Freedom (New York: Harper and Row, 1971), 577. 4. Robert M. Levine and Mark D. Szuchman, Hotel Cuba: A Historical Diary of the Pre-Castro Jewish Experience (videotape distributed by University of Illinois Film Service, 1985). 5. Levine, Tropical Diaspora, 33. 6. About Zayde, see Ruth Behar, “Juban América,” in King David’s Harp: Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American Writers, edited by Stephen A. Sadow (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999), 201–223; and Behar, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996). 7. Pinkhes Berniker, “Jesús,” in Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin AmericanYiddishWriting, edited by Alan Astro, with an introduction by Ilan Stavans (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003), 137–148. 8. Judith Elkin, The Jews of Latin America, rev. ed. (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1998), 89. 9. Margalit Bejarano, “The Deproletarianization of Cuban Jewry,” Judaica Latino-americana: Estudios históricos-sociales, ed. AMILAT (Jerusalem: Editorial Universitario Magnes, Universidad Hebrea, 1988), 57–67. 10. Accounts of the pre-revolutionary Jewish community in Cuba can be found in Levine, Tropical Diaspora; Margalit Bejarano, La comunidad hebrea de Cuba: La memoria y la historia (Jerusalem: Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, 1996); Richard Pava, Les juifs de Cuba, 1492–2001: Essai (Nantes: Éditions du Petit Véhicule, 2001); and Jay Behar_3P-04.qxd:Behar design 7/30/07 2:36 PM Page 279 Notes [ 280 ] Levinson, Jewish Community of Cuba: The Golden Years, 1906–1958 (Nashville: Westview Publishing, 2006). 11. “‘Son propios del fascismo el odio y el prejuicio racial,’ declara Dr. Fidel Castro.” In S. M. Kaplan and A. J. Dubelman, Vida Habanera: Almanaque Hebreo, vol. 18 (Havana: October 1960), 74. 12. Ruth Behar, ed., Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995). 13. Ana María Dopico, “Picturing Havana: History, Vision, and the Scramble for Cuba,” Nepantla: Views from South 3, 3 (2002): 451–493; José Quiroga, Cuban Palimpsests (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005). Some examples of photography books about Cuba: Tony Mendoza, Cuba—Going Back (Austin: University ofTexas Press, 1997);Tim B. Wride, with an essay by Cristina Vives, Cuban Photography after the Revolution (Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Merrel Publishers, 2001); Xavier Zimbardo , with a foreword by Cristina García, Cuba: Mi Amor (New York: Rizzoli , 2002); Terry McCoy, ed., Cuba on the Verge: An Island in Transition (Boston: Bullfinch Press, 2003). 14. Rosa Lowinger and Ofelia Fox, Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub (New York: Harcourt, 2005). 15. Andrei Codrescu, Ay, Cuba! A Socio-Erotic Journey (New York: Picador USA, 1999). 16. John J. Putman, “Cuba: Evolution in the Revolution,” National Geographic (June 1999): 2–45. 17. Pico Iyer, “Holguín, Santiago, Havana, and the Beach: 1987–1992,” in The Reader’s Companion to Cuba, edited by Alan Ryan (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997), 383. 18. Anne Rueter, “Ann Arbor’s Cuba Craze,” Ann Arbor News, April 6, 2003, E1–E2. 19. Dana Evan Kaplan, “The Jews of Cuba since the Castro Revolution,” in American Jewish Yearbook 2001, vol. 101, edited by David Singer and Lawrence Grossman (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2001), 21– 87. 20. Edward Bruner, Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 7. 21. Hasia Diner, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 305. Behar_3P-04.qxd:Behar design 7/30/07 2:36 PM Page 280 [ 281 ] Notes 22. Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen, Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 22. 23. Larry Tye, Homelands: Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora (New York: Henry Holt, 2001), 12. 24. Caryn Aviv and David Shneer, New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora (New York: New York University Press, 2005), 71. 25. James R. Ross, Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Diaspora (New York: Riverhead Books, 2000); Ken Blady, Jewish Communities in Exotic Places (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 2000). 26. Kerri P. Steinberg, “Contesting Identities in Jewish Philanthropy,” in Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish...