Yalla! (Let's Go)

 A Wandering Jew Survives Palestine, Cuba, Jamaica and America  by Alejandro Modena with Colin Ingram Everyone has a “story,” but some lives are endowed with more than their share of drama and challenges. And sometimes, by dint of extraordinary effort, these challenges become opportunities. Such is the case with the life of Alejandro Modena.        This story begins during World War II in the region known as Palestine, when famine spread across the land and Arabs and Jews lived side by side in peace, although they were consumed by hunger and controlled by the occupying British. After the war when the British left Palestine, the peace between the Arabs and Jews was broken and the author was betrayed and nearly killed by his Arab “blood brother.”        Fleeing to Cuba, a wounded Alejandro begins a new life only to discover he is the victim of a dread disease. But the author’s mother, a doctor, allows superstition to overrule medicine and Alejandro survives by treating himself.        Mo