Jewish Involvemnt in Cuba's revolution
‘An embryonic Communist Party, formed in 1925 by socialists attracted to the Russian revolution, was eventually strong enough to take over the CNOC in 1931. Several of the more prominent Cuban communists were Jews from Eastern Europe — a fresh input into Cuba’s ethnic mix — some of whom still found it easier to speak Yiddish rather than Spanish. One of them, Yunger Semjovich, was to survive into the early years of the Revolution in 1959, under the name of Fabio Grobart. Distrust of the communists as ‘foreign’, ‘Jewish’ and beholden to Moscow was one of the obstacles facing the party, distrust as prevalent on the nationalist left as on the right.’
To be more specific: three of the ten founders of the PCC in 1925 were Jewish. The rest, were left-wing Cuban intellectuals. In order to give context to this situation, it is important to note that in 1924 there were only 24,000 Jews in Cuba out of a total population, as recorded in the 1931 Cuban census, of 3,962,344.
‘An embryonic Communist Party, formed in 1925 by socialists attracted to the Russian revolution, was eventually strong enough to take over the CNOC in 1931. Several of the more prominent Cuban communists were Jews from Eastern Europe — a fresh input into Cuba’s ethnic mix — some of whom still found it easier to speak Yiddish rather than Spanish. One of them, Yunger Semjovich, was to survive into the early years of the Revolution in 1959, under the name of Fabio Grobart. Distrust of the communists as ‘foreign’, ‘Jewish’ and beholden to Moscow was one of the obstacles facing the party, distrust as prevalent on the nationalist left as on the right.’
To be more specific: three of the ten founders of the PCC in 1925 were Jewish. The rest, were left-wing Cuban intellectuals. In order to give context to this situation, it is important to note that in 1924 there were only 24,000 Jews in Cuba out of a total population, as recorded in the 1931 Cuban census, of 3,962,344.