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    Items with the tag:

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    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
    Cover of Hotel Cuba
    Fic­tion
    Hotel Cuba
    Aaron Ham­burg­er
    Cover of Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
    Non­fic­tion
    Dwell Time: A Mem­oir of Art, Exile, and Repair
    Rosa Lowinger
    Essay

    Return­ing to Cuba: Art Con­ser­va­tion and Fam­i­ly History

    Rosa Lowinger
    October 9, 2023
    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
    Cover of Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets
    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
    Cover of Lucky Broken Girl
    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…
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    February 17, 2015
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