George IS Jewish

During "The Raincoats" Estelle made some Piaya (SP?), but you don't seem to be calling they Spanish now do you. Now, as you can tell from my damn good spelling, I am not spanish either.

That's about all for now. Dork

I think Thursday night's episode put to rest any question of George's ethnic background. His father was stinking up the apartment by making kasha, a Jewish dish. At least it wasn't roll mops!

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One parent could be Sephardic (jews from Spain, Portugal, and N. Africa) and one parent could be Ashkenazi (Jews from eastern Europe). Hence, Paella and kasha varnishkes.

Darwin Teague writes:

actually, it was shortened from Kostanovitch. --- the family emigrated from the Ukraine around 1903, coming through ellis island, where, not speakin english, they were confused by the emigration agent who asked them what nationality they were, Kostanovitch thought he was asking ---- wait a minute --- oh, yeh ---- excuse me, but COSTANZA IS FICTION!!!! --- it's not short for anything!

(by the way, you couldn't spot that this was written by a jew because i very cleverly held back on starting most of my sentences with "so..." ;-)

ken

(p.s. - in yiddish, the approximation of starting a sentence with "so" is "noo" - from the Russian word for well - listen for older folks to start sentences with "so, noo?" -- reduntantly repetitive in two languages.)

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Dork, I fail to see your point. There is no reason (that I am aware of) to think George is Spanish, there are numerous reasons to believe he is Jewish (being one myself, they are easy to spot!!). Kasha is certainly one of the hints, by no means does it give a sure signal. Many New Yorkers enjoy foods of all ethnic and religous cultures (many Americans I should say).

Anyway, just wanted to add my two cents!!

PS George would look funny in a yarmulkee!

Of course, there are Spanish Jews, known as Sephardim. They have Italian-sounding names, like Abolafia, Shapiro and COSTANZA.

The Kenosha Kid

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Please, don't you think you are stretching it a bit? I am a sephardic jew and I know nobody with the last name of Costanza!! If that was your original point when you implied that he might as well be Spanish, than I appologize. Regards-

George is *not* jewish. He is a Latvian-Orthodox. He converted from what ever in order to continue dating a girl, whose parents did not allow her to continue seeing George.

For those of you who don't know already, there is talk that this season, yes THIS season might very well be Seinfeld's last on the air. As he has gotten back with Shoshanna, and there is talk of marriage, he says he may want to take time out to relax and do the quiet thing for a while. NBC is desperately trying to get him to stay on at least one more season, but at the moment this is how it stands.

I would hate to lose Seinfeld immensely, but on the other hand, leaving now could provide the show with an untarnished legacy. As much as I love the show, people are already saying it's slipping, and leaving now would mean Seinfeld as a show would not have to just slowly die.

I think NBC should show that first one hour pilot that started it all, if they haven't already. I have watched the show from day one, and what makes it so tragic is that most people are bandwagon jumpers who just watched when it became a popular thing, so they perceive it as a very NEW show, when the fact is that I think the first pilot was like 5 years ago. Hopefully, the Seinfeldmeister will stay, because without him, where will we see Dreyfus, Richards, and Alexander again?

Ben

Yeah yeah it's really obvious George is Jewish. But what nobody seems to have caught was that "George Costanza" was a character (probably the murder victim) in the 1981 movie "Body Heat." That's the inside joke.

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Actually, according to Jewish law, the only criterion for determining whether someone is Jewish is whether his/her mother is Jewish. Thus, while George's gentile father may have provided his Spanish last name, his Jewish mother provided his Jewishness.

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If George the character's mother is Jewish, than so is he. That's the way it works, no matter what his father is.

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In [email] (Sam) writes:

No. Three are and one is not. And with that I leave you to figure out who isn't.

Under Hebrew law the child of a Jewish mother is also Jewish; therefore, George the character was born Jewish, although he converted to Latvian Orthodoxy. Wasn't Mrs. Costanza supposed to shred her garments? On second thought, just as well.

-> Here's a juicy little tidbit. A friend of mine believes that the medi -> is run by jews. This is a bad thing, as we all know. :-)

I'd like to comment on your "friend's" attitude but I have to go to an "elders of zion" meeting . :)

Excuse my ignorance but what is a medi? If I knew the answer to that, then I could decide what to make of this remark!! :|

shoymshoymshoym

FYI Seinfeld fans

The last name Costanza is NOT Spanish. To me, it sounds more Italian.

                                           Del corazon de TEJAS,
                                           From the heart of TEXAS,
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