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Start: 7:00 pm
MUSEUM LECTURE:
NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten will
give a talk based on his book, Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
(Viking, $17) that fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum
business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a
deeply entertaining historical narrative. The
company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the
island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated
in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and
adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of
Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of
Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation. This event is
presented in collaboration with Books & Books and in conjunction with the
exhibition, Bacardi:
Architecture, Art & Identity, curated by professor and author Allan Shulman and
sponsored by Bacardi that is currently on view at the Coral Gables
Museum through February 17, 2013. The talk begins promptly at 7pm.
For more information: info@coralgablesmuseum.org
Start: 8:00 pm
Recollections of the
first bat mitzvah at the only synagogue in Indonesia, a poignant bat mitzvah
memory of World War II Italy, and an American bat mitzvah shared with girls in
a Ukrainian orphanage--these are a few of the resonant testimonies about the
transition from Jewish girl to Jewish woman collected in Today I Am a Woman: Stories of
Bat Mitzvah Around the World (Indiana University Press,
$29.95) by Barbara Vinick.
Introduced by brief biographical notes and descriptions of Jewish communities
around the world, these stories reveal how Judaism defines this important rite
of passage in a girl's life in widely disparate settings. The contributions are
from bat mitzvah girls of the past and present, their parents, communities, and
religious leaders. Including evocative family photos--some recent, some from
decades past--this rich compilation is an ideal gift for bat mitzvah celebrants,
their families, and friends.
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