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Excerpt Excerpt: The Marriage of Opposites Excerpt from The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman. 1817 Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Rachel Pomie I always left my window open at night, despite the… Alice Hoffman August 4, 2015
Essay Dominica Earlier this week, Daniel Torday wrote about contemporary Jewish writers in a world post-Philip Roth and alluding to the Torah in the modern novel. He is the… Daniel Torday May 22, 2015
Essay Trying Not to Drown in a Glass of Water On My Way to Cuba This week, Ruth Behar, the author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba and Traveling Heavy: A Memoir In Between Journeys, blogs for The Postscript on… Ruth Behar February 17, 2015
Nonfiction Jubana! The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cuban Goddess Gigi Anders
Nonfiction The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas Mordechai Arbell
Recommended Reading Tropical Jews Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterSeven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosua in the Dominican… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 24, 2009