Cuban Jews Look Back
JULY 28, 2007 Listen to this Story
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Not all immigrants here wanted to come. For Jews from Cuba this week was a time to reflect on that. The Jewish day of observance, Tisha B'av, is a solemn commemoration. Cuban Jews say it resonates with their experience of leaving an island they considered paradise. After the takeover of Fidel Castro in the early 1960s, some 90 percent of Cuba's Jews left the country. Reporter Alicia Zuckerman meets some of them.
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