BIOGRAPHY

摘要

Behar (anthropology, Univ. of Michigan; The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart) spent her earliest years in Cuba before her family left during the 1960sJewish exodus when Castro took over the country. The exodus seemed to spell the end of a remarkable symbiotic 20th-century experience of formerly European Jews who became Cubans. Behar returned to Cuba as a professional anthropologist many times and what she found there surprised her: although small in number and quite assimilated, a Jewish community still remains. This book documents her experiences with wonderfully telling photographs by award-rnwinning Havana photographer Mayol and short descriptive chapters focusing on some fascinating Cuban Jewish people and places.