Ruth Behar

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Ruth Behar at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco in 2012

Ruth Behar (born November 12, 1956 in Havana , Cuba ) is a Cuban - American anthropologist, poet and writer. She is a professor of anthropology and women's studies at the University of Michigan in the US state of Michigan.

Life

Ruth Behar's parents are of Jewish-Russian and Jewish-Turkish descent, and their grandparents immigrated to Cuba in the 1920s. When Fidel Castro came to power at the age of four , Ruth Behar and her family left their home country Cuba and emigrated to the USA in New York. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1977, she studied cultural anthropology (American equivalent of ethnology ) at Princeton University in New Jersey. Her doctoral thesis , which she wrote in 1983 on her field research in a village in northern Spain , became the basis of her first book.

Her second book Translated Woman, published in 1993, was based on ten years of research in a rural small town in Mexico .

Since 1991 her activities have focused on her native country Cuba. Her research on the Jewish community in Cuba resulted in the film Adio Kerida / Goodbye Dear Love in 2002 , in which her son Gabriel Frye-Behar worked as a cameraman . Jewish, Sephardic Cuba is also the subject of her book An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba from 2007.

Awards

Fonts

  • 1986: The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village. Santa María del Monte. (Based on her doctoral thesis from 1983).
  • 1993: Translated Woman. Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story. 2nd Edition. Beacon Press, Boston 2003, ISBN 0-8070-4647-7 ( view in Google Book Search).
  • 1995: as editor: Bridges to Cuba / Puentes a Cuba. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ISBN 0-472-06611-0 ( excerpt in Google Book Search).
  • 1995: together with Deborah A. Gordon as editor: Women Writing Culture. University of California Press, Berkeley et al. a., ISBN 0-520-20207-4 ( reading sample in the Google book search).
  • 1995: with Jordán Rolando Estévez : Poemas que vuelven a Cuba / Poems returned to Cuba. Cuban Ministry of Culture, Ediciones Vigía, Matanzas Cuba.
  • 1996: The Vulnerable Observer. Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart. Beacon Press, Boston, ISBN 978-0-807-04631-9 ( view in Google Book search).
  • 2001: with Jordán Rolando Estévez: Everything I kept / Todo lo que guardé. Cuban Ministry of Culture, Ediciones Vigía, Matanzas Cuba.
  • 2001: The Jewish cemetery in Guanabacoa. In: Ilan Stavans (Ed.): Wáchale! Poetry and Prose About Growing Up Latino in America. Cricket Books, Chicago.
  • 2007: An Island Called Home. Returning to Jewish Cuba. Rutgers University Press, ISBN 978-0-8135-4189-1 ( excerpt in Google book search).
  • 2008: together with Lucía M. Suárez as editor: The Portable Island. Cubans at Home in the World. Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-60477-3 ( view in Google Book Search).

Filmography

  • 2002: Adio Kerida / Goodbye Dear Love. A Cuban-American Woman's Search for Sephardic Memories.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Behar, Ruth. snac, accessed September 20, 2018 .
  2. ^ University of Michigan : Women's Studies. College of Literature, Science & the Arts, accessed April 29, 2014 .
  3. ↑ University of Michigan Library: Ruth Behar. (No longer available online.) In: Michigan Writers Collection. 2002, archived from the original on April 30, 2014 ; accessed on April 29, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spcexhibits.lib.msu.edu
  4. ^ Duke University : A Public Lecture by Ruth Behar. ( Memento from December 28, 2008 in the web archive archive.today ) 2009 (English).
  5. ^ East Carolina University , Department of English: Ruth Behar. In: Writers of the Caribbean. Retrieved April 29, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Behar, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban-American anthropologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba