"Havaner Lebn Almanach", ten almanacs edited by Sender Meyer Kaplan and Avraham Joseph Dubelman. Havana: "Havaner Lebn", 1945-1958. Yiddish and some Spanish.
The newspaper "Havaner Lebn", published between 1932 and 1960, was the main publication of the Jewish community in Cuba. Starting in 1943, "Havaner Lebn" published an almanac which featured literary works, translated Zionist works, various articles and an abundance of information about the Jewish community. In 1960, following the ascent of the communist regime in Cuba, most of the Jewish businesses that advertised in "Havaner Lebn" were closed and the almanac ceased publication.
This lot comprises the almanacs printed in 1945, 1946, 1948 to 1954 and 1958, which include lists of Jewish institutions, youth movements, and newspapers in Cuba, information about the number of Jewish families living in each of Cuba's districts, works by a variety of Jewish writers active in Cuba (Eliezer Aronovsky, Moshe Tanchum Bar [Berman] and many others), articles about Israel (the 1948 almanac was devoted entirely to the establishment of the State of Israel), and more. The almanacs feature numerous pictures of important events and personalities in the Jewish community, as well as dozens of pages of advertisements for Jewish businesses.
Ten volumes. Number of pages varies. Approx. 22 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes, mainly to first leaves. Inked stamps to some title pages. Open tears to a few leaves. New bindings, spine gilt-embossed. New endpapers. Missing original wrappers.