Today Cubas Jewish population numbers approximately 1400. Cuban ruler Fidel Castro will use an official state ceremony to inaugurate Israels symbol the seven-branch menorah in a central Havana square in memory of the Jews murdered in the HolocaustAttending the event will be Castros associate Israeli Minister Rafi Eitan Pensioners Party.
When Our Woman In Havana Asked Fidel Castro To The Synagogue Hanukkah Party The Times Of Israel
Fidel Castro himself who admitted on a few occasions that his own ancestors were of Jewish descent.
Fidel castro jewish. Their descendants were later to be found scattered throughout Egypt Madras France Germany Argentina Brazil Italy the Netherlands. It is a surname that was typical during the expulsion of Spain specifically for Jews of Spanish descent and characterizes the Jews who lived in all kinds of Spanish. Patrick Symmes in his remarkable study of Cuba The Boys from Dolores 2008 quoted Castros classmates who remembered young Fidel stating thatthough many young people in the 1930s were fascinated with Hitler Franco or Mussolinihe could never do so because those leaders.
The Truth about Fidel Castro and Anti-Semitism. Fidel Castros Complicated Relationship With Jews and the State of Israel. The de Castro surname is used by a Sephardic Jewish family of Portuguese Spanish and Italian origin.
So how about the fact Castro admitted he was Jewish. Thats right he has admitted his ancestors were MarranosSpanish Jews who pretended to convert to avoid the Inquisition. Castro is worth many millions of dollars in fact hes probably the wealthiest man in Latin America How can a communist be.
Michael a committed volunteer with Jewish Federation. Fidel Castros paradoxical relationship with Israel and Jews Fidel Castro died on Friday at the age of 90 Last Shabbat the prayer for the state of Israel was recited in the main Havana synagogue. Fidel Castro thinks hes Jewish.
JDC Mission to Cuba discovers Fidel Castros inner Jew. The approximate number of Jews who called Cuba home in 1959 when Fidel Castro seized power from military dictator Fulgencio Batista and installed himself as President. Under Castro who seized power in 1959 and his brother Raul Castro who took over as president.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro whose death was late Friday had a complicated history with Jews. Castro a crypto Jew imported thousands of Blacks from Africa to Cuba to replace at the time the thousands of Whites that had left 59 to mid 70s He used Blacks to shore up his revolution. Quite funny actually since he along with sadist Che Guevara hated Blacks.
Castro is among the more common names of Marranos Spanish Jews who took on Christian Identity during the Inquisition to avoid certain death at the stake. It is possible that Fidel or his relatives personally stated that they have such ancestry. Well one story uncle Fidel might tell is of his ancestry.
Fidel Castros initial love for Israel fell victim to the Cold War but he always fought anti-Semitism against Cuban Jews. Castro visits the island in his luxury yacht. Since the beginning of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro and the Cuban Communist Party have made sharp distinctions between the policies of the capitalist government of Israel the right of the Jewish state to exist and the rights of the Jewish people both there and in Cuba.
We know it from Fidel Castro. Spanish Jews who converted to escape persecution. Fidel Castro a communist mass-murderer who is so arrogant that he used to give 6-hour speeches just to hear himself talk has Jewish roots.
Apparently Fidel Castro is gay Jewish very wealthy and an agent of the CIA. It does not appear however that any documented Jewish ancestry has of yet been produced for Fidel Castro. Blacks will never learn something to do with their brain housing.
I have previously discussed both the likely possibility that Fidel Castro and his powerful brother Raul Castro are themselves of partial Jewish descent 1 and are very aware of it 2 as well as the fact that Cuba and Israel have long had a very strange diplomatic relationship. You see he says that he is descendant from marranos. Maybe he was lit by a Jewish light.
Back back back in Castros family tree you might just find a Jew. Cubas Jewish population today is estimated at 1500. That doesnt mean anything.
So if you go back back back. Citing the same interview the American Jewish Committee stated more recently that despite the Cuban regimes. The tropical island of Caya Piedra is owned by Fidel Castro.
He was never an ideological fascist Cubenas said and was defnitely not an anti-Semite. Soon after the establishment of the Portuguese Inquisition members of the family emigrated to Bordeaux Bayonne Hamburg and various cities in the Netherlands. Shimon Peres a man of Fidel Castros time and of no small contradictions himself seemed to understand the complexity of Castros position.
There are various claims on the internet of varyingly dubious value that Fidel had Sephardi Jewish ancestry specifically Marrano ancestry descent from Jews who converted to Catholicism some of whom retained some Jewish practices. Here are some surprising numbers related to Fidel Castros Jewish links. In 2010 the late Cuban dictator told an American Jewish journalist that he believed Israel has a right to exist earning him praise from Benjamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres.
Or at least part Jewish buried in his past. When community lay leaders Michael and Phyllis Moscovich were planning their most recent mission trip they never imagined discovering Jewish ties to former Cuban president Fidel Castro and the vibrant community that exists on the island. According to Michel Lafon and Axel Gyldén in The Hidden Life Of Fidel Castro.
