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Items with the tag:

cuba

Cover of Across So Many Seas
Chil­dren’s
Across So Many Seas
Ruth Behar
Essay

Four Sephardic Jew­ish Girls Caught in the Web of History

Ruth Behar
February 5, 2024
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Fic­tion
Hotel Cuba
Aaron Ham­burg­er
Essay

Return­ing to Cuba: Art Con­ser­va­tion and Fam­i­ly History

Rosa Lowinger
October 9, 2023
Cover of Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
Non­fic­tion
Dwell Time: A Mem­oir of Art, Exile, and Repair
Rosa Lowinger
Interview—From the Journal

The Lan­guages of Belong­ing: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Ruth Behar and Mar­jorie Agosín 

Ruth Behar, Mar­jorie Agosín
June 19, 2023
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Fic­tion
Inci­dent at San Miguel
A.J. Sidran­sky
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Fic­tion
The Night Travelers
Arman­do Lucas Correa
Essay

The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writ­ing a Sephardic Pic­ture Book

Ruth Behar
June 13, 2022
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Chil­dren’s
Tía For­tu­na’s New Home: A Jew­ish Cuban Journey
Ruth Behar; Devon Holzwarth, illus.
Essay

Los­ing My Spanish

Judy Bolton-Fas­man
October 18, 2021
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Non­fic­tion
Asy­lum: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly Secrets
Judy Bolton-Fas­man
Cover of Letters from Cuba
Fic­tion
Let­ters from Cuba
Ruth Behar
Essay—From the Journal

Tak­ing the Road: Jew­ish Women’s Trav­el Writing

Emi­ly Burack
August 19, 2020
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Chil­dren’s
Lucky Bro­ken Girl
Ruth Behar
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
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