Is George Italian?

    Did anyone notice in tonight's episode (April 24, 1996; don't know
title) that George said to the guy making the calzones that his "name is
Italian," and not that HE is.
     It's also not impossible to be both Jewish and Italian; as I'm sure
has been pointed out before I joined this group, Italian is a nationality,
and Jewish (Judaism) is a religion.
     One other thing is that since in Judaism the child's religion is held
to follow the religion of the mother, and the name generally taken from the
father,  the child of an intermarriage could easily have a name which
doesn't sound Jewish, and yet still be Jewish.  George's father, therefore,
could either be the product of an intermarriage, or else a non-Jew himself.

I'm new around here, and missed most of the earlier discussion, but I just thought I'd add these possibilities.

In article , [email] says...

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Actually, George is neither Catholic nor Jewish, remember he converted to Latvian Orthodox to date the nun. This is the episode where it is discovered Kramer has the kevorka "the lure of the animal."

Actually, George's conversion ceremony to Lat Orthod. was aborted when his witness, the nun (smitten with Kramer not George), renounced her faith. At the end of the episode, George's girlfriend reveals that she is going back to Latvia - so he would have no reason to repeat the ceremony.

In article [email] writes:

Yes, but this does not require such a fantastic leap of logic. People ask me what kind of last name I have. When I tell them it's Pakistani, it follows that I myself am of Pakistani origin (which I am).

[email] (Mish Dilip, PhD.) wrote:

That's not always the case, however. I met a guy from North Carolina who had very Caucasian features, (light skin, light brown hair) and a Southern accent like fingernails on a chalk board. His name was Bombatepe. His father was from India but his mother was American.

Although George happened to be telling the truth about his name being Costanza, he was trying to establish a rapport. He was a real estate agent and probably said things like:

You're from Queens? I'm from Queens. What a coincidence!

Your name is Dorothy? My mother's name is Dorothy. What a coincidence!

etc. etc.

GR