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050 00 $aF1789.J4$bL48 1993
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100 1 $aLevine, Robert M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79132027
245 10 $aTropical diaspora :$bthe Jewish experience in Cuba /$cRobert M. Levine.
260 $aGainesville :$bUniversity Press of Florida,$c1993.
263 $a9308
300 $axvii, 398 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tDiaspora in the Tropics -- $g2.$tThe Immigrant Generation -- $g3.$tRefugees from Nazism -- $g4.$tThe SS St. Louis Incident -- $g5.$tThe War Years -- $g6.$t"La Gloria Eres Tu" -- $g7.$tA Second Diaspora -- $g8.$tLessons of the Cuban Jewish Experience -- $tAppendix: Estimates of the Size of Cuba's Jewish Population, 1910-1992.
520 1 $a"For the generations of Jews who immigrated to Cuba after 1900, the experience was bittersweet. Cuba welcomed immigrants long after the United States shut its doors to them in 1924, particularly refugees from Nazism. Yet the story of Cuban Jewry also includes the tragic 1939 drama of the SS St. Louis, turned away from Havana and the United States with its cargo of German-Jewish refugees still aboard, a propaganda coup for Germany." "Although many Jews prospered economically on the island, they always remained outsiders, denied access to political influence and to high society. Unlike Jewish communities elsewhere, Jews in Cuba played virtually no cultural or intellectual role. Ironically, those who emigrated to the United States as politically (and economically) desirable refugees after the 1959 revolution were the same Jews, or the children of the same Jews, who had been deemed undesirable and denied U.S. entry in the 1920s." "Robert Levine interviewed nearly a hundred Cuban-Jewish immigrants in the course of writing this book, and his use of their words lends the work an especially engaging, lively quality and makes it a vivid reflection of how the immigrants thought and felt and lived. The pages contain more than seventy-five rare photographs of the island and of the Jewish community from its origins to its near-moribund state today." "Levine also compares the experience of Cuba's Jews with that of other immigrant groups, as well as that of Holocaust survivors in other Caribbean and Central American countries. The book's broad scope thus gives it appeal not only for students of Latin American Jewish issues but for all those interested in the relationship between majority and minority societies in the Americas."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aJews$zCuba$xHistory.
651 0 $aCuba$xEthnic relations.
852 00 $bbar$hF1789.J4$iL48 1993
852 00 $bglx$hF1789.J4$iL48 1993