
{"id":201652,"date":"2019-06-30T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=201652"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:35:04","slug":"restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are still broken tombstones and marbles scattered across the floor. In some vaults, the vegetation has won a battle against the cement, but little by little the first Jewish cemetery in Cuba started being rescued and, with it, the memory of this small community on the island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I feel a very great peace and tranquility when I visit the cemetery&#8230;. For me it&#8217;s like being with my mother, my only sister and my nephew,&#8221; Adela Dworin, president of the Hebrew Board of Cuba, standing next to a tomb adorned with small stones that Jewish relatives often use to pay homage to their dead, said to <em>AP<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201654\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201654\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1-1-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1-1-750x494.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Star of David decorates a tomb eroded by moss in the Jewish cemetery of Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 7, 2019. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \/ AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here and there you can see those rocks\u2015an equivalent of flowers among Catholics\u2015next to the plaques that immortalize the name of a grandfather, a father or an aunt surrounded by Stars of David and words of consolation in Yiddish. Elsewhere, a workers&#8217; brigade polishes the engravings, cements streets or frames a pantheon that was looted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The people who came fleeing from fascism during the war are buried here, the ones who founded the community, who bought these lands to make it a cemetery,&#8221; David Prinstein, vice president of the Hebrew Board of Cuba, told <em>AP<\/em>. &#8220;It has historical and sentimental value.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201655\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201655\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-9.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-9-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-9-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-9-750x489.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tomb with the corners covered with stones, a Jewish symbol to show respect to the dead, in the Jewish cemetery of Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 12, 2019. The stones are believed to symbolize eternity. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \/ AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lands of this Ashkenazi\u2015an adjective that identifies the Jewish people from Central and Eastern Europe\u2015Jewish cemetery were bought in 1906 by members of the first Hebrew society that was created on the island, with people coming mostly from the United States, and it was inaugurated in 1910. Many other families also arrived in the period between world wars, fleeing from the persecution to which they were subjected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decades later, one of the Sephardic tradition, native of Spain, was installed in another adjoining plot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few years ago, Prinstein and other members of the community estimated the budget to fix the cemetery at 200,000 dollars, but they weren\u2019t able to get the necessary donations. Now it is being restored by the state-run Office of the City Historian.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201656\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201656\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-2-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-2-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-2-1-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers polishing a marble tomb in the Jewish cemetery of Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 7, 2019. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \/ AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About to celebrate its 500 years of existence, Havana and the Office of the City Historian are in a real maelstrom of preparations that include the repair of streets and historical monuments to the recovery of documents and valuable sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local engineer Pilar Vega, from the Office of the City Historian, told the press that there are about 1,100 vaults in the cemetery. Of these, about 50 have already been repaired and it is expected that another 150 will be completed this year. An old special room for the purification washing of the body of the dead required by the Jewish rite and another waiting room for families were also repaired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vega did not specify how much the state investment will amount to.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201657\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/correction-rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201657\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/correction-rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/correction-rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/correction-rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/correction-rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/correction-rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-1-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The portrait of a young Cuban soldier killed in the Korean War decorates his tomb in the Jewish cemetery of Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 7, 2019. Many Jewish families left the country after the 1959 revolution, leaving behind their dead who in this tradition should not be exhumed unless it is to take them to Israel. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \/ AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Far from the center of the city, the necropolis is located in the capital\u2019s peripheral municipality of Guanabacoa, and it is usually closed to prevent looting, so although the repairs began in the past months, it is now that the result of the restoration can be seen with the paving of the main street and the reconstruction of several of its main installations and monoliths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We are not the only problem the country has, there are many places that require the attention of the Office of the Historian, so we are eternally grateful for its interest and friendship to the Jewish people,&#8221; said Dworin.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201658\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201658\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-3-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-3-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-3-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-3-1-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers in the restoration of the Jewish cemetery resting in the shade on already repaired tombs, in Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 12, 2019. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \/ AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba is currently going through an economic crisis due to lack of liquidity that includes difficulties to pay creditors and suppliers, which usually causes a sort of temporary shortage of some products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cemetery has a monument about three meters high that pays tribute to the six million Jews who died in the Nazi holocaust. There lie buried a half dozen soaps made with human fat from the concentration camps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dworin, who lost her entire family during World War II, recalled that she was in elementary school in 1947 when the monolith was inaugurated. Her parents left a small town that was then in Poland before the arrival of the Germans, but her grandmother and uncles did not have the same luck, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201659\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201659\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-4-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-4-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-4-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-4-1-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plant sneaks into the crack of a grave in the Jewish cemetery of Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 12, 2019. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \/ AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some members of the community, especially from the United States, which is usually the one that makes the largest contributions to the community\u2019s projects on the island, eventually offered to help rescue some plots on previous occasions, but not enough to comprehensively deal with the deterioration of the space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout the years, the Jewish community was not exempt from Cuba\u2019s political ups and downs and many families left the country after the 1959 revolution leaving behind their dead, who in this tradition should not be exhumed unless it is to take them to the Holy Land. The secularism that impregnated the first years of the revolution\u2019s triumph caused some people to disengage and lose their roots.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201662\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-8-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-201662 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-8-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-8-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-8-1-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-8-1-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-8-1-750x490.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers cleaning a tombstone in the Jewish cemetery of Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 12, 2019. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \/ AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was not until the 1990s that Judaism regained strength from the hand of prominent doctor Joseph Miller, former leader of the community, who started bringing together the Jews scattered throughout the island, and even those who were unknowingly Jewish. They reconnected with their past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also during those years of severe economic crisis, there was a new emigration of young Jews to Israel through a program of the Canadian Embassy on the island, given the political break between Havana and Tel Aviv.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201660\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-6-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201660\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-6-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-6-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-6-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-6-1-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker polishing a tomb decorated with the Star of David in the Jewish cemetery of Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 7, 2019. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \/ AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba and Israel have no diplomatic relations. The former usually rejects the alliance of the second with the United States\u2015they are usually the only two countries that vote in the United Nations in favor of maintaining the embargo on the island\u2015and supports the aspirations of Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently some 1,500 Jews live in Cuba, most of them elderly.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201661\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-7-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201661\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-7-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-7-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-7-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-7-1-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A horse, behind the perimeter fence of the Jewish cemetery of Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 12, 2019. At present, in Cuba there are about 1,500 Jews, mostly elderly. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \/ AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Families leave and many even forget those who they leave behind here,&#8221; lamented Prinstein, acknowledging the deterioration and abandonment of the cemetery during decades of neglect and looting; and who also emphasized that the archives of the cemetery are currently being digitized, which will allow knowing more about its history and that of the community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are still broken tombstones and marbles scattered across the floor. In some vaults, the vegetation has won a battle against the cement, but little by little the first Jewish cemetery in Cuba started being rescued and, with it, the memory of this small community on the island. &#8220;I feel a very great peace and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3612,"featured_media":201653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13902],"tags":[22988,22989],"ppma_author":[34014,17428],"class_list":["post-201652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","tag-cuban-history","tag-jewish-in-cuba"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Far from the center of the city, the necropolis is located in the capital\u2019s peripheral municipality of Guanabacoa.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba | OnCubaNews English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Far from the center of the city, the necropolis is located in the capital\u2019s peripheral municipality of Guanabacoa.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"OnCubaNews English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-30T20:27:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-06-30T20:35:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-5-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \/ AP, andrea rodriguez\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \/ AP\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \\\/ AP\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a82e496d06744c9da5b76f66b407d975\"},\"headline\":\"Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-30T20:27:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-30T20:35:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1356,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-5-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"cuban history\",\"jewish in Cuba\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cuba\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2019\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/\",\"name\":\"Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba | OnCubaNews English\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-5-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-30T20:27:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-30T20:35:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a82e496d06744c9da5b76f66b407d975\"},\"description\":\"Far from the center of the city, the necropolis is located in the capital\u2019s peripheral municipality of Guanabacoa.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-5-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-5-1.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":683,\"caption\":\"Tombs decorated with the Star of David and one that lacks the image of a person, in the Jewish cemetery of Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 12, 2019. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \\\/ AP.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/cuba\\\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Portada\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"OnCubaNews English\",\"description\":\"Revista sobre Cuba\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a82e496d06744c9da5b76f66b407d975\",\"name\":\"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \\\/ AP\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0892cc0bc9e8e1fe52c372aa0eba18cb22aeca8df71048df94a70acf4140381a?s=96&r=g713fe3f7a350365254607dcb6d2a67b3\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0892cc0bc9e8e1fe52c372aa0eba18cb22aeca8df71048df94a70acf4140381a?s=96&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0892cc0bc9e8e1fe52c372aa0eba18cb22aeca8df71048df94a70acf4140381a?s=96&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \\\/ AP\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/andrea-rodriguez\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba | OnCubaNews English","description":"Far from the center of the city, the necropolis is located in the capital\u2019s peripheral municipality of Guanabacoa.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba | OnCubaNews English","og_description":"Far from the center of the city, the necropolis is located in the capital\u2019s peripheral municipality of Guanabacoa.","og_url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/","og_site_name":"OnCubaNews English","article_published_time":"2019-06-30T20:27:06+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-06-30T20:35:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":683,"url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-5-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \/ AP, andrea rodriguez","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \/ AP","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/"},"author":{"name":"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \/ AP","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/a82e496d06744c9da5b76f66b407d975"},"headline":"Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba","datePublished":"2019-06-30T20:27:06+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-30T20:35:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/"},"wordCount":1356,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-5-1.jpg","keywords":["cuban history","jewish in Cuba"],"articleSection":["Cuba"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2019","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/","url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/","name":"Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba | OnCubaNews English","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-5-1.jpg","datePublished":"2019-06-30T20:27:06+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-30T20:35:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/a82e496d06744c9da5b76f66b407d975"},"description":"Far from the center of the city, the necropolis is located in the capital\u2019s peripheral municipality of Guanabacoa.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-5-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rep-gen-cuba-cementerio-judio-5-1.jpg","width":1024,"height":683,"caption":"Tombs decorated with the Star of David and one that lacks the image of a person, in the Jewish cemetery of Guanabacoa, east of Havana, Cuba, on June 12, 2019. Photo: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa \/ AP."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/restoration-of-first-jewish-cemetery-in-cuba\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Portada","item":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Restoration of first Jewish cemetery in Cuba"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/","name":"OnCubaNews English","description":"Revista sobre Cuba","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/a82e496d06744c9da5b76f66b407d975","name":"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \/ AP","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0892cc0bc9e8e1fe52c372aa0eba18cb22aeca8df71048df94a70acf4140381a?s=96&r=g713fe3f7a350365254607dcb6d2a67b3","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0892cc0bc9e8e1fe52c372aa0eba18cb22aeca8df71048df94a70acf4140381a?s=96&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0892cc0bc9e8e1fe52c372aa0eba18cb22aeca8df71048df94a70acf4140381a?s=96&r=g","caption":"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \/ AP"},"url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/author\/andrea-rodriguez\/"}]}},"authors":[{"term_id":34014,"user_id":3612,"is_guest":0,"slug":"andrea-rodriguez","display_name":"Andrea Rodr\u00edguez \/ AP","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0892cc0bc9e8e1fe52c372aa0eba18cb22aeca8df71048df94a70acf4140381a?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","last_name":"Rodr\u00edguez \/ AP","first_name":"Andrea","job_title":"","user_url":"","description":""},{"term_id":17428,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cap-andrea-rodriguez","display_name":"andrea rodriguez","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","user_url":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201652"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=201652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}