Reading list for Travelers to Cuba
0. Recommended Reading
from Jewish Cuba:
http://jewishcuba.org/books.html
1. Bettinger-López, Caroline, Cuban-Jewish
Journeys: Searching for Identity, Home, and History in Miami
2. Bettinger-López, Caroline, Cuban-Jewish
Journeys -from Turkey to Miami The beginning is very useful for travelers
3 Articles on History and Culture: http://.jewishcuba.org or
http://jewishcuba.org/siteindex1.html
4. Timerman, Jacobo, Cuba, A Journey, 1990,
Travelouge (Author is a Jewish Argentine journalist/writer/archivist)
5. Levine, Robert M., Tropical Diaspora,
The Jewish Experience in Cuba, 1993
6. Margalit Bejarano with Haim Avni, editor
La Comunidad Hebrea de Cuba: La memoria y la historia (Instituto Abraham
Harman de Judaísmo Contemporáneo, Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén,
1996) ISBN 965-90054-0-7 Available from Sephardic Congregation of Florida
- Torat Moshe 1200 Normandy Drive Miami Beach, FL 33141-3600 tel:
305-861-6308 fax: 305-868-6124 In English go to American Jewish Congress
Magazine COPYRIGHT 2002
7. Farin Levy, Eugenia, Sinagoga de
Santiago de Cuba, 1997 In Spanish, available from The Cuba-America Jewish
Mission $8
8.Obejas, Achy, DAYS OF AWE , Ballantine
Press
9. Timerman, Jacobo, Cuba, A Journey, 1990,
Travelogue (Author is a Jewish Argentine journalist/writer/archivist)
10. Daniels, Errol. Cuba: A Jewish Journey.
Isbn 0-9744399-0-8 A book of Jewish photographic subjects 2002-3. Newly
published www.errolphotos.com 11. Oltuski, Enrique, Vida Clandestina:MY
life in the Cuban Revolution. 2002. Isbn: 0787966584
Fiction and
Fictionalized History: Those starred deal with Jewish subjects.
1. Garcia, Christina, Dreaming in Cuban,
1992
2. Garcia, Christina, The Aguero Sisters, a
novel 1997
3. Hijuelos, Oscar, The Mambo Kings Play
Songs of Love, 1989.
*4. The Last Minyan In Havana
(fictionalized autobiography that is easy reading and very informative);
Paperback website: www.cuba-books.com
*5. Heisler-Samuels, Betty, Under the Ceiba
Tree. Paperback. website: www.cuba-books.com
6. Gimbal, Wendy, Havana Dreams, a Story of
Cuba,1998.
Guidebooks
--There are many others but these will get you started:
1. Lonely Planet travel Survival Kit
2. Baker, Christopher P., Cuba Handbook;
Paperback
3. Biondi, Joan (Editor), Perrottet, Tony
(Editor), Insight Guides, Cuba. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995
4. Cole, Andrew, Cuba, Pearl of the
Caribbean, 1995.
Fallon, Stephen, Guide to Cuba, 1995.
6. Fodors(Editor), Fodor's Cuba (2nd
Edition) Paperback
Ryan, Alan (Editor), Malone, Christa
(Editor), The Reader's Companion to Cuba (1st Ed); Paperback
8. Williams, Diane, Diving and Snorkeling
Guide to Cuba, 1996
Misc
Topics-History, Scholarly Works, Travelogues and Photo Essays:
1. Levine, Robert M., Tropical Diaspora,
The Jewish Experience in Cuba,1993
2. Miller, Tom, Trading with the Enemy,
1992. Travelogue
3. Nichele, Franc and Renaudeau,
Michel,Cuba, Evergreen 1999
4. Randall, Margaret, Cuban Women Now,
1974.
5. Sapieha, Nicolas, Old Havana, Cuba, 1990
6. Baker, Christopher P., Mi Moto
Fidel:Motorcycling through Castro’s Cuba, National Geographic Adventure
Press,2001. Travelogue. Fun Reading ISBN: 0-7922-6422-3
Codrescu, Andrei, Graham, David
(Photographer); Ay Cuba
Hunt, Christopher Waiting for Fidel;
Paperback
Vicki Gold Levi and Steven Heller, Cuba
Style: Graphics from the Golden Age of Design, Princeton Architectural,
2001
Sapieha, Nicolas, Old
