Adio Kerida

Adio Kerida: Goodbye my Dear Love is a 2002 documentary by American anthropologist Ruth Behar that follows her trip to Cuba, which her family left when she was four.

She searches for memories from her past and investigates the dwindling Sephardic Jewish community that remains, estimated at less than 800 in 2011.

Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba before the Cuban Revolution and was four years old when her family immigrated to the United States.

As immigrants there in the early 20th century, her father and grandfather, Sephardi Jews from Turkey, once worked as peddlers in the city.

It received the following awards:[2] Visual Anthropology Review: "Personal, poetic, and reflective...offers a glimpse into a relatively unknown realm of the Cuban reality.