Biography:

Rosa Goldstein is an older Polish-Cuban Jewish woman who came to Philadelphia with her husband in 1964, five years after the Cuban Revolution. Her parents and brothers came in 1961 and 1962. She works at the Beth Shalom Synagogue in Jenkinstown. Her family owned a bakery in La Habana, Cuba. Her family supported the revolution but could not cope with the government's seizure of private businesses. She and her husband are part of a small Jewish Cuban community in Philadelphia and members of the Cuban Community Center at 4982 Rising Sun Ave.