ADIO QUERIDA - SHALOM AHUVATI

Steven Wagner - Stevan VAgner, Podrum COLLEGIUM MELODIUM, World music museum in Belgrade , Great Dr. PECA KON, NIKOLA and DJURDJA, present old Hebrew - Sefard song ,* Good by my beloved * - SHALOM AHUVATI -Adio querida / RUTH return us to history. / Ruth Behar is half Ashkenazi and half Sephardic. Her father, a dark haired Turkish Jew, traces his history back to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. "It is said that when our ancestors left Spain, they took the keys with them," says Behar, "always believing in the possibility of return." Fittingly then, she finds reminders of her family's history everywhere: her parents’ former apartment in Havana is unaltered –- not a piece of furniture out of place; the Behar name is all over the gravestones in the Sephardic cemetery; and on the street named Inquisador, Behar visits the ruins of her father's temple. She asks, "Who am I in Cuba? A returning native, a reluctant anthropologist, or a tourist?"