Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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A Life in Haiti Herbert Gold. HE REPUBLIC was a land without Jews except in myth and memory . There was no congregation and no cemetery , but there were a few visitors . There were some visiting American Jews , two Israelis . There was ...
A Life in Haiti Herbert Gold. HE REPUBLIC was a land without Jews except in myth and memory . There was no congregation and no cemetery , but there were a few visitors . There were some visiting American Jews , two Israelis . There was ...
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... Jews had come . Before I found their vivid traces , I found the anti - Semites , refu- gees from their crimes . The ... Jews , and his name was Cohen . When he confided one evening that the Jews are at the root of all the trouble ...
... Jews had come . Before I found their vivid traces , I found the anti - Semites , refu- gees from their crimes . The ... Jews , and his name was Cohen . When he confided one evening that the Jews are at the root of all the trouble ...
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... Jews caused all the trouble in Haiti ? " " No , not all , " he said , " but the wars , the world wars they started , all the wars hurt us , too . " There was a double ledger for his secret Jewish grandfather and his need to find an ...
... Jews caused all the trouble in Haiti ? " " No , not all , " he said , " but the wars , the world wars they started , all the wars hurt us , too . " There was a double ledger for his secret Jewish grandfather and his need to find an ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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