ABSTRACT
A MacCarthur Fellow and an anthopologist on the faculty at the University of Michigan, Ruth Behar is the author of Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (1993) and The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart (1996). She left her natve Cuba as a little girl. Since the nineties, she has been active in the movement to reconcile the two Cuban halves after the Fidel Castro revolution of 1958 and 1959—the population inside Cuba and the exiled population in Miami and elsewhere. In 1994 she coedited with Juan León the anthology Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba. Behar has also produced an autobiographical TV documentary, Adió Kerida. This poem is representative of her persistent search for Jewish origins.
