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Ruth Behar

Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar is an award-winning anthropologist and writer. Born in Havana, she has dedicated her scholarship to the Spanish-speaking world, carrying out research in Spain, Mexico and Cuba. Her books, An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, and Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys, explore her Jewish identity and search for home. A fiction writer for young readers, she has won acclaim for her middle grade novels, Lucky Broken Girl and Letters from Cuba, and her picture books, Tía Fortuna’s New Home and Pepita Meets Bebita, co-authored with her son, Gabriel Frye-Behar. Her newest novel, Across So Many Seas, is a sweeping saga of four girls from different generations of a Sephardic family. She is the James W. Fernandez Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. View the trailer and rent Ruth Behar’s 2002 documentary film, Adio Kerida: Goodbye Dear Love, on Vimeo. Learn more about Ruth Behar’s latest book, Across So Many Seas, by visiting the Penguin Random House website.
Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar is an award-winning anthropologist and writer. Born in Havana, she has dedicated her scholarship to the Spanish-speaking world, carrying out research in Spain, Mexico and Cuba. Her books, An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, and Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys, explore her Jewish identity and search for home. A fiction writer for young readers, she has won acclaim for her middle grade novels, Lucky Broken Girl and Letters from Cuba, and her picture books, Tía Fortuna’s New Home and Pepita Meets Bebita, co-authored with her son, Gabriel Frye-Behar. Her newest novel, Across So Many Seas, is a sweeping saga of four girls from different generations of a Sephardic family. She is the James W. Fernandez Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. View the trailer and rent Ruth Behar’s 2002 documentary film, Adio Kerida: Goodbye Dear Love, on Vimeo. Learn more about Ruth Behar’s latest book, Across So Many Seas, by visiting the Penguin Random House website.
  • / Winter 2024 /

They Found, then Lost, their Espanya in the Tropics

Researching the history of Jews in Cuba illuminates the understanding of what it means to be an exile in a family of exiles.

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