KHC-NEH Lecture – Virtual Finding Home: Exploring the Cuban Jewish Experience in the Caribbean and the US

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.

This event is part of the 2024-25 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Circuitous Exchanges.” The event is organized by the KHC and is co-sponsored by the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University; the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University; the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains; and the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity Western Washington University.