GEORGE IS ITALIAN. *NOT* JEWISH!

I think tonight's episode cleared it up for all of us. The Costanzas come from Tuscany. We all remember that George converted to Latvian Orthodoxy anyway.

	Jason Alexander = Jewish.
	George Louis Costanza = not Jewish.

ENOUGH! -gil-

gypinsbe@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Gil Yosef Pinsberg) wrote:

Yes, but what about Kramer?

Lots of Jews in Italy. This clears up nothing.

Joe

Not that I think George's character is Jewish, but just because he comes from Tuscany does not make him not Jewish. Being Jewish has nothing to do with which country or city you or your ancestors were born in

In a previous article, [email] (Gary Kline) says:

Horse puckey! If George ordered a kosher meal on a plane, that does not - repeat DOES NOT - make him yoo-wish. It makes him an idiot for ordering what can only be described as the most noxious-tasting airline food on the planet. And for anyone who's eaten that crap, that's a bold statement. Love a good corned beef on rye myself . . . .

Hey, and flame away ;)

For what it's worth, the Jason A. character is one of the funniest things on the planet . . . .

--mike

I'm not saying that the George character is or isn't Jewish(although Jason Alexander, is Jewish amd he certainly plays George with the certain stereotypical mannerisms characteristic of Jews from the New York area), however, I must raise the point again and again, just for pedantry's sake that there IS such a thing as Italian Jews from Italy, who have lived there for centuries and who have Italianate sounding surnames such as Luzzato, Ottolenghi, Montefiore, etc....Again I am not trying to assert that the fictional character of George Costanza is supposed to represent a descendant of the proud and ancient Italian Jews, yet for accuracy's sake I must protest against the seeming belief on this newsgroup that being Italian and Jewish are two mutually exclusive states of being.

In article , [email] says...

Bravo, Steve! But, good point on the kosher meal. I have a theory that the writers/producers haven't been paying as close attention to detail as we'd like them to. Clearly this is a Jewish reference, yet we see other evidence to the contrary. Oh well!

BTW, you work for a banjo company? (not that there's anything wrong with that)...

-Gary K.