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Cuban' Jews' Success in Nr i lficijf Lead to Warmer CliMes

is different in New York tit;
they were obliged to organize as he did.
Although the new Cuban in Cuba.
themselves to identify with
Many of the 4,000 CuN
NEW YORK—There is a their former life. The Labor premier pulled the rug from
beautiful, tree-lined suburb Zionist Alliance attracted under the Jewish business- Jews who came to the I.;
in Havana, Cuba, known as many of them and a large man, there was no direct per- York area are moving sou
Santos Suarez. It was the number are active in the Cu- secution of Jews. In fact, un- to Miami where there is
til the summer of 1973, Cas- large Cuban population al
home of many of Cuba's ban Branch 422 of LZA.
Jaime Schuchinsky and Ab- tro maintained diplomatic re- thousands of Cuban Jew
12,000 Jews who left that
and further "southward"
beautiful island for New raham Baikovitz, both Cuban lations with Israel.
When the U. S. broke rela- Puerto Rico for new busine
York a dozen years ago and Jewish leaders told this writ-
somehow found the Vander- er that when the older Cu- tions with Cuba in 1961, the opportunities. Many Cub.
veer Apartments in Brooklyn ban Jews gather, they usually Jewish flight accelerated. Jews in the New York
which they quickly dubbed, speak Yiddish, while the Today; they have re-estab- feel they would do bett
young people converse in lished their, businesses. Doc- south since they of com
"Santos Tzuros."
tors and engineers have pick- know Spanish. Besides, t
For after the luxury of Cu- Spanish.
The biggest barrier to ad- ed up their professions. Some climate is better and warn,
ba where many Jews were in
the upper class, the hard- justment was learning Eng- became salesmen, and others than what many feel is t
working life of middle-class lish. The adults attended now work at trades they coldness of New York—i
New Yorkers and adjustment Americanization courses. The learned earlier in their lives. only in temperature but
to a new land did have a lot young quickly picked up a For many, however, the up- physical -and personal
good grasp of their new lan- heaval meant a loss of 30 roundings.
of "tzuros" to it.
And so, the Cuban Jew w
But they have done quite guage. Still, they enjoy speak- years of labor. Many Jews
ing Spanish. As one said, lost their factories to Castro once came to New York
well.
tme;
the Vanderveer r
Philip Soskis, executive di- "When we're in a group of without compensation.
The tragedy of the emigra- are moving once
rector of the New York As- Latins, we have a sense of
sociation for New Americans Latin humor. We still enjoy tion from Cuba was that
when the Cuban Jews left Cu-
(NYANA), says that Cuban a joke in Spanish."
IT'S LEATHER WEATHER
In Cuba, the Jewish com- ba in the 1960s, ft was their
Jews succeeded here because
they "stuck to practical munity was middle-class in second uprooting, for many
SUEDE & LEATHER
things of making a living and income and outlook; indeed had been refugees once be-
CLEANERS
90 per cent were in busi- fore in the 1930s when they
getting settled."
576-0575
fled
Naxism
and
arrived
in
543-5700
ness.
Had
Castro
left
busi-
(D—New
York)
And
working
hard
is
what
-
Representative , Elizabeth Holtzman
10612 W. 9 Mile 4503 N. Woodwart
Cuba.
ness
alone
after
making
his
R.O.
O.P.
accepts a plaque from Betty W. Ellerin, president of the Cuban Jews seem to have
Earning a living, however,
HIAS Women's Division, and Gaynor I. Jacobson, VHS done since they came to these initial reforms, the Jews
executive vice president. Rep. Holtzman was honored as shores. Of the 12,000 that might have stayed.
The Jewish community,
HIAS Women's Division "Woman of the. Year" "as an were in Cuba before Fidel
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ticriminatng
tt3ic Jruly or 11.)_
inspiration to future generations of Jewish women and Castro took over, about 6,000 like the rest of the Cuban
middle
and
upper
classes,
settled in the Miami area,
all others who revere justice."
about 4,000 came to New had grown increasingly res-
piii
York,
about 1,000 went to tive with the repressive mea-
Pope Paul Meets Member of PLO
sures of the Batista regime:
ROME, (JTA)—Pope Paul Sunday to a representative of Venezuela and 1,000 settled the "payola," the inefficient
in
Israel.
the
Palestine
Liberation
Or-
granted a private audience
The Cuban Jews did not tax collection system.
ganization, Gibreel Shukri,
The bulk of the Cuban
stay
in the Vanderveer for
PLO member and his wife.
Jews supported Fidel Castro.
The PLO delegate was in long. The hard work . that Sos- They genuinely believed that
Rome for the world confer- kis cited paid , off, and the efficient social and land re-
Cuban Jews moved tq subur-
ence on food.
forms would help the masses,
A spokesman for the Vati- ban areas in Queens, Long and of course benefit busi-
HAIR STYLERS - CLOCKS - RADIOS
Island
and
New
Jersey.
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can declared that the audi-
Cuban Jewish families are ness at the same time. Few
ence had no political impli- closely knit. By necessity, expected Castro to go as far •
RONSON LITERS - ELECTRIC SHAVERS
cations and did not constitute
IP
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recognition of the PLO by the
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Vatican. However, this is
believed to be the first pri-
November 24th
vate papal audience granted
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
to a PLO member.
VIENNA (JTA)—Informed a burden other countries will • TYPEWRITERS
ROMA HALL
sources said here that Aus- have to share.
trian Chancellor Bruno Krei-
BULOW
The sources also said that
Livonia
sky, now on an official visit such an increase would pre-
ACCUTROM
Schookraft Nr. Inkster
MICHAEL KAPLIT
to the United States, plans to sent greater security risks
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sing some 30,000 Soviet Jews opportunity to "prove its
a year, but that' an expected moral and political responsi-
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You read about JHIRMACK PrOducts in the
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Eli Zborowski, president,
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HIAS Honors Rep. Holtzman

By BEN G. FRANK

(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)

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