A fictionalized account of Castro's death that rings truer every day as he approaches his final hour. A fascinating voyage to the beginnings of Cuba's black population, santería, its music and its contribution to the island's folklore. A colorful look at the Cuba of today and the contrast with the life of Miami's exiles as well as an answer as to what could happen after Castro's death. A must for everyone at all interested in the future of the island.
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Betty Heisler-Samuels was born in Cuba in 1941. Her mother, who was born in Lithuania, grew up on the island, and her father emigrated there from Poland shortly before WW II. She majored in Advertising at The University of Havana and worked as a copywriter at the Advertising Department of El Encanto, Havana's premier department store before it was bombed by an anti-Castro group in the early 60's.
After Castro's communist regime took over Cuba, she fled with her family to Miami, where she graduated from the School of Journalism. She worked for the Spanish edition of The Miami Herald, Vanidades and the Spanish editions of Goodhousekeeping and Harper's Bazaar, before starting Donde Magazine, the first Spanish-language city magazine that was published in Miami.
She now publishes Entre Nosotros, a Spanish language Jewish lifestyle magazine tht circulates in the U.S and South America. The Last Minyan in Havana is the distillation of her memoirs of growing up Jewish in Cuba and of her subsequent visits to the Jewish community that remains there under a communist regime.
The Last Minyan in Havana will be featured at the Miami Jewish Book Fair in October.
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The first Jewish presence in Cuba goes back to Christopher Columbus, who took many conversos and Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition on his first voyages to the New World. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Doņa Dominga, Old Havana, Tomas Menendez, United States, Centro Israelita, American Jews, Parque Central, Tel Aviv, Hershel Dessler, Rosa Olex, Haim Tuchman, Havana Harbor, Jewish Relief Committee, Joint Distribution Committee, Morro Castle, Paseo del Prado, President Bru, Reina de Armas, Abuela Sara, American Jewish, Leo Rosen, Lerer Gershcovich, Mod Kantor, North America New!
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The first Jewish presence in Cuba goes back to Christopher Columbus, who took many conversos and Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition on his first voyages to the New World. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Doņa Dominga, Old Havana, Tomas Menendez, United States, Centro Israelita, American Jews, Parque Central, Tel Aviv, Hershel Dessler, Rosa Olex, Haim Tuchman, Havana Harbor, Jewish Relief Committee, Joint Distribution Committee, Morro Castle, Paseo del Prado, President Bru, Reina de Armas, Abuela Sara, American Jewish, Leo Rosen, Lerer Gershcovich, Mod Kantor, North America New!
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