Finding Home: Exploring the Cuban Jewish Experience in the Caribbean and the US

On Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM

This is a virtual event using Zoom


This Special Event / Fair is for Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff


Join us for a rich and powerful conversation surrounding Cuba’s long Jewish history with Dr. Ruth Behar, a cultural anthropologist and published children’s book author who has spent her career studying and sharing her own personal experience navigating her identity as a Cuban Jew. The discussion will encompass the ways in which Jewish immigrants reckoned with the creation of their new homes and identities as they migrated from Europe to the Caribbean and the US.

For more information, please visit our website.


This event is sponsored by Kupferberg Holocaust Center
and Co-Sponored by The Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University; and the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains.


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Contact Name: Kupferberg Holocaust Center

Contact Phone: (718) 281-5770

Contact Email: [email protected]

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