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Renee Ghert-Zand is a reporter and feature writer for The Times of Israel. Ruth Behar s grandmother Esther (third from left in front row, in white dress) with her family in Agramonte, Cuba, c. 1936. (Courtesy) Ruth Behar s grandmother Esther and grandfather Maximo (center and right) at their lace store in Havana, with an employee, early 1950s. (Courtesy) Ruth Behar s parents wedding in Havana in 1956, with her Sephardic grandparents on the left and her Ashkenazi grandparents and great-grandparents on the right. (Courtesy) Ruth Behar s grandmother (carrying box) emigrating from Cuba to the US in 1961. (Courtesy) In 1938, 12-year-old Esther Levin travels alone from Poland to the port of Havana to reunite with Abraham, the father she hasn’t seen for three years. Along the way, she compulsively writes letters to her younger sister Malka, whom she desperately misses. But not a single letter is sent.

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