Description
Author Betty Heisler
Publisher Chutzpah Pub (August 22, 2000)
Binding paperback
Condition like new
Summary
Betty Heisler was born in Cuba. Her mother, who was born in Lithuania, grew up on the island, and her father emigrated there from Poland shortly before WW II. She majored in Advertising at The University of Havana and worked as a copywriter at the Advertising Department of El Encanto, Havana's premier department store before it was bombed by an anti-Castro group in the early 60's. After Castro's communist regime took over Cuba, she fled with her family to Miami, where she graduated from the School of Journalism. She worked for the Spanish edition of The Miami Herald, Vanidades and the Spanish editions of Goodhousekeeping and Harper's Bazaar, before starting Donde Magazine, the first Spanish-language city magazine that was published in Miami.
She subsequently published Entre Nosotros, a Spanish language Jewish lifestyle magazine that circulated in the U.S and South America. The Last Minyan in Havana is the distillation of her memoriesof growing up Jewish in Cuba and of her subsequent visits to the Jewish community that remains there under a communist regime.