Havaner lebn

Havaner lebn (Yiddish: האװאנער לעבּן, 'Havana Life'), known in Spanish as Vida Habanera, was a Yiddish and Spanish language newspaper published from Havana, Cuba 1932–1960.^[1][2] The first issue came out on November 11, 1932.^[3] It was the first commercial Jewish newspaper in the country with a longer duration.^[3] It was the main publication of the Ashkenazi Jewish community in the country at the time.^[1]

Havaner lebn

Type	Weekly (1932–1937), Twice-weekly (1937–1960)
Editor	Oscar Pinis (1932–1935), Sender Kaplan (1935–1960)
Founded	November 11, 1932 (1932-11-11)
Language	Yiddish language Spanish language
Ceased publication	December 31, 1960 (1960-12-31)
Headquarters	Havana
Country	Cuba
OCLC number	8392744
Media of Cuba List of newspapers

History

Havaner lebn was founded by Elieser Aronowsky, Oscar Pinis, Carlos Shwarzapel^[4] and Asher Penn.^[5] Pinis was the editor of Havaner lebn 1932–1935.^[6] Sender Meyer Kaplan became the editor of Havaner lebn in 1935.^[7][8] He was assisted by Abraham J. Dubelman, who acted as co-editor of the newspaper.^[3][9] The authors of the newspaper were generally male.^[2] During its first years it came out weekly.^[4]

The newspaper carried advertisements for Jewish businesses.^[2] Havaner lebn published a yearly almanac, which became a key source on the history of the Jewish community in Cuba for this period.^[10]

In 1936 attacks on Havaner lebn were issued in the press organs of José Ignacio Rivero, which accused the newspaper of being leftist and anti-Cuban. As a result, Kaplan was arrested and detained for four weeks.^[8]

From 1937 onwards it was published twice-weekly.^[11] It became a bilingual (Yiddish/Spanish) publication in the 1950s.^[4]

The last issue was published on December 31, 1960. Many of the companies advertising in the newspaper had been nationalized, and would no longer pay the bills for ordered adverts.^[12] Both Kaplan and Dubelman migrated to Miami, United States shortly afterwards.^[1][12]