Cuban Jews

The New York Times takes a look at the Jews of Cuba. I myself am both Jewish and Cuban, but that's a mixed-ancestry thing, not a Jewish Cuban thing as seen in the article.

Comments

wow, you're tangentially associated with the two most powerful ethnic lobbies in the USA! dig up an armenian ancestor back in galicia, won't you?

(jews and armenians do share some diseases, like familial mediterranean fever)

Posted by razib | February 6, 2007 8:46 PM

Hey,

Do you know Enrique? I forget his last name. He's from Miami. He's Cuban too.

Sincerely,

Linus

PS Matt should blog about his Cubans. That's interesting that he has them.

Posted by Linus | February 6, 2007 8:54 PM

"Mr. Castro"?

Posted by Just Karl | February 6, 2007 9:23 PM

Matt should blog about his Cubans. That's interesting that he has them.

Agreed. How do your Cubans impact your views on things like immigration/Castro/Elian Gonzalez?

Posted by Just Karl | February 6, 2007 9:28 PM

matt showed his latino card during l'affaire huntington :-)

Posted by razib | February 6, 2007 9:50 PM

You know, it must suck to try and keep a kosher house in a nation whose national cuisine is built around delicious barbequed pork.

Posted by Brian C.B. | February 6, 2007 10:31 PM

I know it's ignorant to conflate Cubans and Puerto Ricans, but you're like the opposite of Epstein from Welcome Back, Kotter.

We should all strive to be more like Horshack, though. The very special episode about hi drinking problem changed my life.

Posted by Luke | February 6, 2007 10:40 PM

Good point, Brian.

That might explain this line about Cuban Jews you find when you go to the link at the bottom of the Times story:

Today, like all Cubans, they say they are hungry.

http://www.jewishcuba.org/paull.html

Posted by alphie | February 7, 2007 3:28 AM

Cuban-Jewish? That sounds like something from The Godfather II.

Posted by Jeffrey Davis | February 7, 2007 10:53 AM

I had a professor in college who was Cuban Jew. It helped make that jazz theory class perhaps the coolest class ever. His main compositional genres were regular jazz, Cuban jazz, and klezmer. I kid you not.

Posted by Cain | February 7, 2007 11:01 AM

When I first moved to New York in 1979, I marvelled at the profusion of Cuban-Chinese restaurants and thought they served some innovative fusion cuisine. I was soon disabused of that notion. Are there any good Cuban-Jewish delis? Maybe I can get a Reuben-Cuban sandwich.

Posted by CJColucci | February 7, 2007 11:10 AM

Are there any good Cuban-Jewish delis?

Ancient comedy routine. c 1957

-What's the chance of getting good deli in Havana?
[gruff voice]
-There is no chance!
[repeat "There is no chance" at need]

I've remembered that dumb gag for ~40 years. I have no idea what the context was.

Posted by Jeffrey Davis | February 7, 2007 1:08 PM