CUBA
by Michel Fiffe
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Posted by: Michel Fiffe
02:11am / Oct 20, 2008
02:11am / Oct 20, 2008
Walter, thank you so much for reading this preview and for your insight on the matter. Cuba's history and political standing is indeed a complex and sensitive thing. Not only do I want to address its tumultuous past, but above all, I hope to spark a positive dialog in regards to Cuban affairs.
Your family sounds interesting. I wasn't aware of German refugees living in Cuba. You must have many interesting stories to tell.
Thank you so much for posting a link to the comic over at CubaNews. More importantly, I appreciate your reading and feedback.
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Your family sounds interesting. I wasn't aware of German refugees living in Cuba. You must have many interesting stories to tell.
Thank you so much for posting a link to the comic over at CubaNews. More importantly, I appreciate your reading and feedback.
reply.
Posted by: Walter Lippmann
10:49am / Oct 20, 2008
10:49am / Oct 20, 2008
Thanks for getting back to me, Michel.
First, you can read about the Cuban Jewish experience in several most interesting books, including:
TROPICAL DIASPORA by Robert M. Levine, who also interviewed my father, also Walter Lippmann. It's perhaps the largest history of the Cuban Jewish experience. Levine died a few years ago. Quite informative book.
PASSING THROUGH HAVANA by Felicia Woolhandler, a novel which evokes the World War II period of Cuban Jewish experience during the years my father was living there.
THE CHOSEN ISLAND, by Maritza Corrales Capestany, a series of interviews with Cuban Jews who decided, unlike the majority of their bretheren and sisteren to REMAIN in Cuba after the Revolution, and which tells their stories, mostly through interviews.
AN ISLAND CALLED HOME by Ruth Behar is also one you'd enjoy reading.
Also, THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF CUBA, The Golden Age by Jay Levinson, which to the author means before the Revolution.
I'd like to invite anyone reading to subscribe to the CubaNews list and Michel, you can and should feel both free and encouraged to post notices whenever new chapters to your novel are posted to the net. I'm sure readers of CubaNews will want to follow the novel as it develops.
Best wishes,
Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
First, you can read about the Cuban Jewish experience in several most interesting books, including:
TROPICAL DIASPORA by Robert M. Levine, who also interviewed my father, also Walter Lippmann. It's perhaps the largest history of the Cuban Jewish experience. Levine died a few years ago. Quite informative book.
PASSING THROUGH HAVANA by Felicia Woolhandler, a novel which evokes the World War II period of Cuban Jewish experience during the years my father was living there.
THE CHOSEN ISLAND, by Maritza Corrales Capestany, a series of interviews with Cuban Jews who decided, unlike the majority of their bretheren and sisteren to REMAIN in Cuba after the Revolution, and which tells their stories, mostly through interviews.
AN ISLAND CALLED HOME by Ruth Behar is also one you'd enjoy reading.
Also, THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF CUBA, The Golden Age by Jay Levinson, which to the author means before the Revolution.
I'd like to invite anyone reading to subscribe to the CubaNews list and Michel, you can and should feel both free and encouraged to post notices whenever new chapters to your novel are posted to the net. I'm sure readers of CubaNews will want to follow the novel as it develops.
Best wishes,
Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
Posted by: Emily Coffey
02:54pm / Oct 21, 2008
02:54pm / Oct 21, 2008
I have been to Cuba a number of times and see the essence of Cuba in your graphics.
Keep up the good work.
Keep up the good work.
06:16pm / Oct 19, 2008
My father and his parents lived in Cuba from 1939 to 1942. They were German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, and not political left-wingers. That family history is where my own interest in Cuba comes from.
Cuban society today represents an effort to build an alternative to the way life was under the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who ran Cuba before Fidel Castro led a revolution there. No one complained about a lack of human rights and democracy in those days, but U.S. businesses were protected.
Some things work, some don’t. Like any society, Cuba its flaws and contradictions, as well as having some solid achievements. No society is perfect. But we can certainly learn a few things from Cuba’s experience.
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