HAVANA, CUBA The Jewish Heritage

[cubsfanforeverful]

Of course now in Cuba they execute all the jews just like in Venezuela.

[SaMiiMajnOoN]

you cant be serious

[DarkKunai99]

@MrArpas123 No. He's not. Get over it.

[Gwynsek]

It must be a Cuban-Jewish version of Tico-tico no fubá !! LOLOL lovely

[Gwynsek]

Is this a mix of Brazilian "Tico- tico no fubá" ?

[Gwynsek]

Thanks for this !

[ARCHDIVERALPHATEAM]

ALLAN GROSS is an American citizen sentenced to 15 years in Cuban JAIL for taking internet equipment to Jewish leaders on the Island.

[rolandosanchez13]

JEWISH CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIALISM,WHAT LIKE SOCIALISM IS A GOOD THING,THE JEWS ARE THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IN THIS WORLD.....THE BANKERS,WALL STREET CROOKS,

[Yojimbo707]

el 80% de cubanos son negros africanos, del 20% restante el 0.5% son judios y el 3% son blancos, los demas son mestizos mezclados con nativos, negros y otros esclavos

[javierelbueno]

@Yojimbo707 estas totalmente equivocado, terriblemente equivocado, hablas asi porque tienes una ignoracia exagerada por algun resentimiento u odio.....

[Georg0090]

WTF R U TALKING ABOUTLOL??"AFRICA

[Georg0090]

THO IN CUBA WE EMBRACE R AFRICAN ROOTS.IN MUSIC FOOD & ART.WERE MIXED FOLK WHITES/AFRICANS/.SPANIARDS/CUB­ANS



[marconii92]

What is the name of that song?

[leomend92]

wow!!!!! now i get to know there were jewish people in cuba,i have lived there for almost my whole life and never heard of word of jewish people there

[puchy1950]

are there any records of Jews that left Cuba in late forties or early fifties to the U.S.A. ? I ask because my cousins Irma and Nora Lowenthal nee Valdaliso, left Cuba with their Father and I would love to see them!

[hispanicuscorpus]

retarded music

[delayla0610]

@hispanicuscorpus AY DOMINICANOOO! OYE DOMINICANO APESTOSO CIUDADANO DE MITAD DE UNA ISLA QUE NI PUEDEN DECIR QUE LA ISLA ES DE ELLOS SOLOS!! PRIMERAMENTE TE TIENES QUE LAVAR LA BOCA CON CLOROX ANTES DE HABLAR ALGO DE UN CUBANO, TAMBIEN TU Y TODOS LOS TUYOS DEBERIAN APRENDER A LEER Y ESCRIBIR ELI IDIOMA CASTELLANO CORRECTAMENTE. Y YA QUISIERAS TU EN TUS SUENOS SER CUBANO! SOLO EN TUS SUENOS! LA ENVIDIA TE MATA!! Y OTRA VEZ TE EQUIVOCAS PORQUE SOY NACIDA EN USA, IMBECIL, LO QUE ME HAS HECHO REIR

[hispanicuscorpus]

@delayla0610 Dominicana, con toda la basura que viste. esta mil veces mejor que Cuba. y ni no fueze por un Dominicano..hoy no hablara de tanta mierda que hablas. y deja de hablar tanta M. que escribe ingles mejor que el espanol que escribe aqui con tanta falta ortografica. voy a ver si encuentro tu cha cha, manbo hoy en la radio. dinosario

[delayla0610]

@hispanicuscorpus Dominicano IMBECIL, ANALFABETO como es posible que un ANALFABETO hable de faltas de ortografia si el mismo no sabe ni leer ni escribir ni en Español ni en Ingles!!! Jajajajjaa que IMBECIL eres chico! Y no te pongas ahora a decir que si no fuera por un Dominicano estupido, el Dominicano era leal siguiente de Jose Marti UN CUBANO que fue el que tuvo los pantalones bien puestos de iniciar la guerra contra los Españoles, instruyete y lee antes de hablar tanta MIERDA! Otra cosa..

[delayla0610]

@hispanicuscorpus Otra Cosita....a mi no me hagas cuentos de que R.D. esta mil veces que Cuba, que la pobreza, y BASURA y pudricion que vi en esa mitad de isla que es de ustedes era deprimente y asqueroso, con toda la destruccion que existe en Cuba hoy, nunca podras comparar una con la otra NUNCA, como esta tan buena por eso es que ustedes estan arriesgandose las vidas en el mar huyendo a P.R. donde muchos se quedan y otros pasan para USA, no me HAGAS CUENTICOS DE HADA que tu mismo ni los crees!

[delayla0610]

@hispanicuscorpus Y de Musica no me gasto mi tiempo discutiendo con ANALFABETOS con TU de musica buena, es como hablarle de musica a un perro, y creo que ya he gastado bastante tiempo valuroso en ti asi es que te recomiendo que te ubiques y te instruyas antes de mandarte a decir barbaridades porque siempre va a haber una como yo que te ponga en tu lugar!! y si deseas te compro Ingles/Español SIN BARRERAS para que te ayude a aprender ambos idiomas! Jajajajajaja

[delayla0610]

@hispanicuscorpus APRENDAN A HABLAR QUE SON UNOS ANALFABETOS, VETE A "COMEI" UN MOFONGO CON TU "MAI" Y MIRA VER SI SE PONEN A LIMPIAR ESA ISLA QUE ES UN ASCO POR DONDE QUIERA QUE VAS ES BASURA REGADA POR DONDE QUIERA. Y DE MUSICA? JA! YA QUISIERAS TU PODER DECIR QUE EL MAMBO, CHA-CHA-CHA, RUMBA, DANSON ETC SALIERON DE TU PAIS, ENVIDIOSOOOOOO!!! AH! YY BURRO ES 'RENCOR" NO "RENCON" QUE CLASE DE IMBECIL!!! JAJAJAJAJJAJAJAJAJAJAJJAJA!!

[asianlion7]

your comment is NONSENSE!

Fidel Castro is a Marrano Jew!

[flouflis1a]

These rats are probably running Cuba just like they run Iran....!

[hispanicuscorpus]

why it is, that everytime anyone make a video of Cuba have to used that idiotaty music? choose something else. stop with the salsa and the cha cha, that was 4 decade ago

[delayla0610]

@hispanicuscorpus What are you RETARDED???? STUPID, MORONIC, IGNORANT?? WHAT KIND OF MUSIC DO YOU EXPECT TO ACCOMPANY ANY VIDEO THAT HAS TO DO WITH CUBA? THE BEST DAMN MUSIC IN THE WORLD WAS CREATED IN CUBA YOU STUPID MORON! BUT HEY WHY AM I WASTING MY TIME RESPONDING TO A MORON LIKE YOU!? AND WAS IS "idiotaty"??? YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE!

[hispanicuscorpus]

@delayla0610 ok,,,you must from miami, 48 year old, scape castro ha? viva castro,..maybe you blood pressure could a little higher, you go away and let castro live

[delayla0610]

@hispanicuscorpus WRONG!! YOU MUST BE SOME INDIGENOUS PIECE OF SHIT FROM SOME CAVE IN MEXICO/LATIN/SOUTH AMERICA, I DONT LIVE IN MIAMI, YOU PATHETIC BOTTOM OF THE BARRELL LOSER , NOT ALL CUBANS LIVE IN MIAMI! APRENDE A HABLAR Y ESCRIBIR CORRECTAMENTE EL INGLES ANTES DE METERTE A ESCRIBIR O POR LO MENOS INTENTAR DE ESCRIBIR ALGUN COMENTARIO!!!! RETARDADO MENTAL.

[Serglish]

Can someone explain to me what is the relationship betwween masons and some cuban jewish and what really happened there before castro blew it? what is the situation now for the Sionist in Cuba now?

[Any2267ful]

Nuestra parte judia de cuba.Hermosas imagenes!!

[topbluffa1]

Racist Elitists.

worse than Nazis.

[CubanodePlacetas]

I visited the grand synagogue in Havana, the one picture here, in about 1986 and they have a picture of "prophet Moises Castro", the one who make the Cuban people to cross "into the red sea" (underwater), at the entrance. The synagogue was in ruins inside, not exactly like in this pictures.

[illuminatijews]

Feel sorry for Cuba, they might be the real reason why Cuba fell into the hands of Communism; because Communism came from Jews.

[acabramzach]

Ever wonder why you never hear of what ship company owned the SS St-Louis ?

Look for it and look for the corporate owners and bankers. You are in for quite a shock.

Look for the deal this company had with corrupted cuban politicians to get those fake visas and sell them high price to jews.

Does Bush and Warburg sound familiar ?

[Bucktooth001]

Did the Sephardi Jews ever at a point in history have any coverts to Judaism?

[ferdmert]

jews are awesome!!!! put em in cuba and that's when they become really cool!

[real1abcda]

so this is youtube .... where caN YOU post a comment

[debrabee]

found some old photos online of Sephardic Jews and they look more like darker than the modern Isrealis wonder why

[jester026]

why would that matter?

[debrabee]

No dont matter at all ,just I was watching the journey of man documentary about where people evolved from

[bloodcell9]

that's because they are Sephardic or Mizrahim (Hebrew) and not Ashkenazic (which is European), same faith different ethnicity.

[Mizrachi8]

they are descended from the same ethnicity but broke up into different groups which would be more proper to call subethnicities since they are froma lager groups. Sephardim are just a sect of Jewish people who had ancestors living in Spain before 1492.

[bloodcell9]

First off...the Sephardics (Hebrews) did not come from Spain originally they came from Portugal But where forced to leave after Portugal became a country in its own right, this then resulted, in the Sephardics (Hebrews) moving into to Spain, then, during the overthrow of the Moors. Spain with Isabella and Ferdinand (heir to the Aragonese throne) ascending to the throne of Castile, then created the new spainish Inquisition (around 1469), and thats just apart of OUR Sephardic history and ancestry.

[Mizrachi8]

And Sephardim, Ashkenazim, And Mizrahim are very closely related since they are all ethnic Jews

[bloodcell9]

Talking to you is like is like wailing at a wall (imposible) you deny peoples ancestry by sayng, hey we are all the same ethnically because we share the same faith, Ok by standing to your logic how then am I "ETHNICALLY" the same as a European or Afro who might share the same faith,THAT does not mean that I would challenge or deny their faith, but I would not presume on ethnically, becuse I would never deny someones families ancestry that would be drifferent to my own reguardless off faith.

[sjunnpremirotjavoar]

not all ashkenazim are ethnic jews.. many of them are converts or descendants of converts....

[Mizrachi8]

that is not what genetic studies have proven. It has proven they have very similar DNA to Sephardim and Mizrahim.

[sjunnpremirotjavoar]

yes but not ALL... im sure most of them do BUT there has been conversions and mixed mariges...

im a mizrachi jew my self from iran

[Mizrachi8]

Jews from FSU often come from intermarriages because they were encouraged to assimalate with their host populations.

[chsn09]

Exactly, because if not many Azkehnazim would NOT be able to be identified as White if they were true ethnic jews! the Sephardic and Mizhrazic are CONSIDERED the real true original UNCHANGED Jews!

[sylvianessan]

What fun, thanks so much.

[portacoelhi]

I've learned much from Cuban Jews in Puerto Rico who came early on in the revolution.They are incredible --- intelligent, hard-working & very devoted to their families,history & now to Puerto Rico.Castro lost that round.Nothing like getting rid of your scholars,bankers, merchants & entrepreneurs. He knew what he was doing when he pushed the intelligentsia out...keep the sheep stupid, busy & shove dogma down their throats & look what he has today: an island of poverty, decay & hopelessness.

[black2much]

The Jewish community will always be part of Cuba.

[jenflights]

Very interesting and informative. Thanks :)

[Dapogsy2007]

Jose Raoul Capablanca, the great chess player probably had Jewish blood.

[albertdiner]

It would be interesting to look into it. Does

anyone know his mother's last name? It could

be from a family of sephardic jews.

[ejm413]

El Manisero (English -the Peanut Vendor), one of the great songs produced in Cuba, was composed by a Jewish immigrant, Moises Simmons, in 1928 in Havana. See ejm413 for a performance.

[MadamAlise]

Ah El Manisero is one of my favorite Cuban songs.

[CubanodePlacetas]

Gracias por el video y la musica. Cuando podremos regresar a una Cuba libre Dios mio?

[Sovietrafa]

Mi familia materna era de origen judio...en Cuba. Ellos tenían propiedades y fueron expropiadas. De ahí la mayoría decidió marcharse cuando tubieron la oportunidad unos a Miami otros a Europa. Otros decidieron quedarse. La familia se dividió y yo ahora no tengo nada de judio...

[Lonesome58]

Si tiene, tiene la herencia de judio y de ser parte de una nacion que es bendecida por encima de todo lo que pueda pasar

[Changuili99]

Jews in Cuba were called 'polacos' (Polish) possibly to sidestep the anti-semitic sentiments promoted by the Catholic Church which blamed Jews(judíos)for killing Jesus.

That's the reason many Cubans will tell you that they never met a Jew in Cuba, but they knew lots of 'polacos.'

Up to 1959, there was a large Jewish presence in Cuba, mostly as merchants and professionals. Additionally, thousands of American Jewish tourists flocked to Cuba during the winter months.

[splatman56]

You sir are obviously terribly ignorant to not be aware of the Jewish contributions to socialism and workers rights. Your racism clearly clouds your thinking.

[mickeydougal]

Good stuff! Excellent imagery, GREAT music. Bravo!

[RCAARON]

magots

[mossadamerica]

Shalom for all from Cuban Jew in THE BIG APPLE

[ShmorgelBorgel]

Who is this singing, Mickey Katz? Sounds like him.

[ShmorgelBorgel]

Never mind the above question--didn't read the tags and the other commenters when I asked if it was the late great Mickey Katz--who else could it have been? :-)

[gpolichar]

Yet another mean spirited, foolish oaf. Sometimes

they just come out of the woodwork, like cockroaches.

[qince15]

hotel raquel in old havana is a jewish hotel.

hotel riviera in havana vedado was owned by meyer lansky till 1959.

[TheDivaSharon]

Xaviar Kugel??????  HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[docm27]

You're a genius!

[SHMUJEW]

Yeah were the chosen ones and when we take over the middle east , Im going to israel to live on my plantation with indentured arab servants

[221254at]

Putting aside all this anti-semitic nonsense, I am amazed to discover that there were Jews in Cuba. Are there any left? And the music- crazy mix between the klezmerish sound and latin beat. Insane!! :)

[ShmorgelBorgel]

Thewre are a lot of links on history of the Jews in Cuba-but most have left, but still a few 1000, but most today are mixed-intermarried with other Cubans.Jewish history in Cuba goes back to the first Spanish colonization of the island but the majority of Cuban-Jews immigrated there either from the Middle East(Turkey,Syria) or Europe (Poland,Russian,Germany)from late

19th to mid-20th centuries.

[ShmorgelBorgel]

But the song and the singer is not Cuban-the singer was Mickey Katz,an American Jewish vaudevillean entertainer(and father of Joel Grey)-he made a lot of comedy albums in mixed Yiddish and English from the 1920s,1930s and '40s.He also did Yiddish cowboy songs!But Mickey Katz's Yiddish cowboy songs had very little to do with Jews in the old Wild West-& even though it's cute,this song had very little to do with Jews in Cuba.The guy was just being silly and trying to get a laugh!

[albertdiner]

Jews from New York and Miami chose Havana as

their favorite vacation in the late 1940s and

1950s decade. The cuban musical sounds began to appear in the yiddish songs of Mickey Katz,

The Barry Sisters, and other yiddish entertainers of that period.The yiddish women

were dancing the cha-cha, mambo and the rumba,

all of these were cuban dances.

Mickey Katz sings the song TICO TICO, not in portuguese,

but in Spanish. The sound of Cuban music spread as well into American music.

[albertdiner]

When I refer to "JEWS IN CUBA" I don't limit

my definition to CUBAN JEWS but to jews as

tourists in Havana. Also many refugees from the Holocaust arrived in Havana and stayed

there for a while en route to other destinations.

[KF4NR]

Ha ha ha ha! This is very hilarious, thank you :)

I was born in Havana, and lived there 30 years (nearly half my life), never met any Jewish person, but I'm sure they were (are?) there, probably most of them fled away when Castro took power like the Chinese did.

Regards, good job! :)

[Kingnoah]

Jewws rule the world, we just can not do anything about it, they are the chosen ones.l just a fact, read the bible

[Parphian]

I so sad about your mind. Matrix has you :(

[aramaris]

Be in Cuba, Spain, Argentina, or New York, the JEWS have always fed on others. Today, 90% of the world's problems go back to their control of international media, greed, diamonds, fashion, news, and everywhere where there is a DOLLAR. We owe them everything from famines to wars. Merci!

[docm27]

Go and drop dead you filthy goy drek. Antisemitism must be destroyed with singleminded passion, like getting rid of syphylis

[ARoundOfApplause]

aramaris Frank Weltner....is this you???

[gpolichar]

This person is obviously a student of those who willingly destroy any goodness and kindness shown between people. Small mind, mean spirit, foolish oaf. We have no use for this kind of comment at YouTube.. this is not criticism, it's only bigotry forced on all of us.

[jelkron]

kromando you are an antisemite pig.-

[eyeofhebeholder1]

No one starves in Cuba... They send more doctors to 'Doctors w/o Borders' per capita than ANY other country... there is no vast disparity. China is communist & America has no problem w/ her. Cuban Jews HATED the fact that Castro nationlalized businesses & they couldn't bilk the population, so they move to Miami and insist the US marginalize Cuba supposedly for communism. US has more homeless per capita than Cuba. Man, get outta here.

[starrjoan]

My friends who fled Cuba were not Jews but Christians. What is all this anti-semitism about now?

[eyeofhebeholder1]

Truth isn't anti-Semitic. The overuse of that word, waters down its meaning. Just because we don't like something, doesn't mean it's untrue. Instead of name-calling, I'll simply suggest you Google the following exactly as is in parentheses. ("cuban jews" fled nationalized). I'm a black guy. Blacks commit a lot of crime in Atlanta and score lower on SATs. That's not anti-black, just true. ;-)

[ARoundOfApplause]

starrjoan Both Christians and Jews fled Cuba, many on rafts- the Jews got better seats.

[amazingeddie]

I thought Xaviar Kugel did Tico Tico?

[lilicroix]

mickey katz a meirrayer ein yiddish voreth

[pearlypetals]

beheime

[pearlypetals]

have you seen the great scientist Albert Einstein in the pics? You'd better bow to him... hehe

[pearlypetals]

If I were your neighbor I would surely move far away from you too....

[pearlypetals]

Typical Jewish behaviour is that of SURVIVAl. jews are the best teachers in this matter..

[pearlypetals]

Mickey Katz is amazing...I love him.. but this song Tico-tico no fubá is a famous Brazilian Samba, that Carmem Miranda used to sing..It is not a rumba and has nothing to do with Cuban Music.

[albertdiner]

Tico Tico is a brazilian song that was very popular in Cuba. The words spoken in the song

are spanish and Yiddish, "Hasta la Vista",

señores y señoritas, "rumba" is a Cuban dance.

Carmen Miranda was married to the Spanish-

Cuban Xavier Cugat. Carmen Miranda made the

movie "Weekend in Havana". In Brazil they

don't speak Spabish, but portuguese.

[pearlypetals]

albert, Carmem Miranda did not marry Xavier Cugat. ''The Rumba King'' Xavier Cugat married

5 times as below

Rita Montaner (c.1918-20)

Carmen Castillo (1929-46)

Lorraine Allen (1947-?)

Abbe Lane (1952-64)

Charo Baeza (1966-78)

As to the Brazilian Bombshell, she came to the USA in 1939 and later in 1947 she met an American producer David Alfred Sebastian and they got married that same year. He was her only husband till she died.

[Schrodinger2equation]

We Remain Brother; Conversation Open

[4yall]

bad thing both cuban-jews and cuban-born people are dying of hunger and of misery while they're being betrayed and lied to by their own government.

[m1228c]

The little Yiddish I learned was when I was growing up and listening to Mickey Katz on my 33 1/3 records. Now you know where Joel Grey gets his talent.

[JACOB625]

Excellent, how beautiful to see pictures of the Cuban Jewish culture. Thanks!!!!

[arnerog2000]

Shalom to all my Jewban Brothers,nice video.Que VIVAN LOS JUDIOS CUBANOS!!!

[Harshcore811]

There were Jews in 16th century Mexico as well. Just read about the Carvajal family.

[alcamike]

u r an idiot

[pearlypetals]

and by the way,you too dont forget to bow to

Albert Einstein. Did you see him on the pics?

[pearlypetals]

yes, he surely is, and a beheime too

[cubanjewinusa]

I can only say THANK YOU and SHALOM !!!

[GeniusQBN]

been to cuba and didnt see no jewish landmarks

i saw the chinese and the arabic communities

but this right here makes me wanna go back and see those landmarks first hand

[dzheger]

Oy, is this funny! Muchas Gracias, un a groyse dank.

[jurek46pink]

fantastic mixture of two streams, two cultures ! Thank you.