Today we’re pleased to welcome Margarita Engle and Ruth Behar to the WNDB blog to discuss their books Your Heart, My Sky, and Letters from Cuba! Cuba is just 90 miles from the US and yet Americans know so little about it. Much of what they do know is inaccurate. Why do you think it's … [Read more...] about Q&A With Margarita Engle and Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar
Otra Vez Más: Explaining My Cuban Jewish Identity
By Ruth Behar I have been explaining my identity ever since I arrived as a child immigrant to New York in the early 1960s. That I could be Cuban and Jewish seemed strange to most of the people I encountered—children as well as adults—even in a city as diverse as New York. The categories of … [Read more...] about Otra Vez Más: Explaining My Cuban Jewish Identity
