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Fidel Castro Book Description

Was this man, who divided the perception about him both while he was alive and after his death, actually a hero or a bloody, cruel dictator?

The book Fidel Castro, On My Left Side, does not answer this question, it only seeks the answer to the question. By presenting an objective profile of Castro, he leaves the answer to the reader.

Castro, who emerged from a small village in Cuba and stood out as an active political actor in the world, deserves to be known.

With its rights and wrongs...
With his successes and defeats...

But unfortunately, we do not have much information about Fidel Castro, who lived such a fast, intense and full life. There are two main reasons for this: First, he does not want to create a 'hero cult' around himself, and secondly, and more importantly, the censorship imposed by the state he created and instructed.

We don't have enough information about him today.

In the process of writing this book, we tried to shed light on the familial, ethnic, geographical, economic, political, social and theological climate that created it by subjecting different works published in many countries of the world to a literature review. Because the foundations that gave birth to the Castro legend are based on these dynamics.

Now let's leave you alone with the colorful, rich, crazy world of Fidel Castro.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 160

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Printing Year: 2021

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language: Turkish

This book is com­post­ed of fas­ci­nat­ing vignettes of the com­mu­ni­ty of Jews encoun­tered by Ruth Behar on her many trips back to her birth­place. The author left Cuba as an exile at the age of five, along with the large exo­dus that began when Fidel Cas­tro came to pow­er. She began jour­ney­ing to Cuba to seek out the past, of which she had no mem­o­ries. Behar won­dered who and what was left to uphold the Jew­ish lega­cy of the island and record­ed her find­ings in this fas­ci­nat­ing book. 

Behar, who is an anthro­pol­o­gy pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan and the recip­i­ent of a MacArthur Fel­lows award, describes the peo­ple and sights of her beloved home­land with com­pas­sion and an eye for col­or­ful detail. She includes inter­est­ing dial­o­gye from con­ver­sa­tions she has with the locals. Her book includes many poignant black and white pho­tos by award win­ning Cuban pho­tog­ra­ph­er Hum­ber­to May­ol, which enhance the per­son­al nar­ra­tives of indi­vid­u­als with­in the remain­ing Jew­ish community. 

This book was espe­cial­ly enjoy­able for me because I share the same her­itage and quest as the author and expe­ri­enced what she wrote about. My Yid­dish speak­ing grand­par­ents arrived in Cuba from Poland and Rus­sia before World War II and made suc­cess­ful lives there, rais­ing their fam­i­lies and work­ing hard. I left Havana in 1962 at the age of thir­teen months with my par­ents and most of our extend­ed fam­i­ly as refugees to the U.S. Like Behar, I grew up in a Cuban-Jew­ish-Amer­i­can immi­grant envi­ron­ment, speak­ing flu­ent Span­ish, eat­ing deli­cious Cuban spe­cial­ties, and lov­ing Lati­no music. I yearned for many years to vis­it the island where my pater­nal uncle still lives and see for myself what is left of