In a country that
appears at a standstill, the Cuban Jewish community is, “very much an integral
part of the country and the national identity, but they also have their
institutions and keenly observe the religious holidays and other important
dates in the Jewish and Israeli cultural calendar,” notes a participant in an
Israel-based photography team that visited Cuba recently. Check out my Cuba
Chapter in “The Scattered Tribe, Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to
Tahiti & Beyond,” (Globe Pequot Press), available wherever books are sold,
including Amazon.com, http://amzn.to/J3Z47T as well as an ebook.
Mr. Frank, I came across your name in regards to your travels to Birobidzhan. I am an amateur genealogist. I would like to share a family diary from 1886 regarding an ancestor's journey from there to NYC. Would you please respond to drjangurney@aol.com? I have some general questions about the condition of Jews at the time and how best to proceed further with a genealogy search from that area, if at all possible for a relative that left in 1887.
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