History faculty member Dr. Mark Goldberg has achieved national recognition for his latest research project exploring what it meant to be Cuban and Jewish in the mid-twentieth century. This summer, Dr. Goldberg travels to the American Jewish Archives (AJA) in Cincinnati as the 2025-26 Herbert R. Bloch Jr. Memorial AJA Fellow. This fellowship supports his book project, “Double Diaspora: Cuban Jewish Migration to Greater Miami.”
Dr. Goldberg describes the project as an exploration of “how Cuban Jewish exiles forged what I define as a ‘double diaspora’ rooted in an entangled Cuban Jewish identity, their Jewishness and Cubanness deeply intertwined. This research, in particular, examines the resident Miami Jewish community on the eve of the Cuban Revolution as well as community members' responses to the Cuban arrivals.”