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- ↑ The Virtual Jewish History Tour Cuba Jewish Virtual Library
- ↑ The Jewish Traveler: Havana Hadassah Magazine[ dead link ]
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- ↑ Jerry Berke, Havana Synagogue Dark for Decades is Once Again Aglow in the Light of Shabbat Candles Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine , The Jewish Federations of North America. Accessed August 15, 2011
- ↑ Dana Evan Kaplan, A Jewish Renaissance in Castro's Cuba, Judaism, Spring 2000. Accessed August 15, 2011
- 1 2 Kenneth Bandler, Argentine rabbi ignites fervor in dormant Cuban communities, The Jews of Cuba, 1996. Accessed August 15, 2011
- ↑ Ruth Behar, An island called home: returning to Jewish Cuba, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8135-4189-1; p. 179
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