Talk:Fabio Grobart

message: Thank you very much Polaris that is a great start.  I will begin to add immediately.  One problem will be his many aliases.  There is even a misspelling of Grobart as Grovart for in one of Castro's speeches, the minutes were apparently taken by somebody from old Oriente province where the v is synonymous with the b, as in viajaca, a fresh water "pan" fish (usually Cichlasoma tetracanthus ), which is commonly spelt Biajaca in the rest of the country.  El Jigue 1-13-06
:Not just Oriente - I know many Cubans from other parts of the country who regularly confuse b and v. The Revolution may have eliminated illiteracy, but it hasn't taught everyone how to spell properly ! -- Beardo 01:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: One wonders at the relationships between Fabio Grobart and Otto Katz.  Koch, Stephen. 1994 (2004 edition) Double Lives. Enigma Press, New York  103-104, 346-349 and others. From 103 states " He (Otto Katz) is known to have worked closely there (Mexico City) with the long time NKVD chieftain Umansky, spending the war (WW II) much involved in Soviet operations within the United States and the Caribbean, working among other things with Fidel Castro's predecessor, Fulgencio Batista.  Batista was at this time much admired and promoted by the left, and Katz was empowered to make Batista grand offers on behalf of the Soviet Union if Batista would enter Stalin's sphere of influence. (footnoted to Otto Katz, FOIA dossier #65-9266) El Jigue 208.65.188.149 14:30, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Otto Katz

message: Margalit Bejarano, The Jewish Community of Cuba: Between Continuity and Extinction, in Jewish Political Studies Review, v. 3, pp. 115-140 at p. 122 (1991):
"Jewish presence in the early stages of Cuba's Communist Party aroused the interest of historians following the communist turn in Fidel Castro's Revolution. According to the minutes of the founding session of the Cuban Communist Party three out of the ten founders were Jews; [FN25: Acta de constitucion del Partido Comunista de Cuba," in Hortensia Pitchardo, Documentos para la Historia de Cuba, III (Havana, 1973), pp. 299-301; Boris Goldenberg, "The Rise and Fall of a Party, the Cuban CP (1970):61-80] one of them, Yunger Simchowitch, was destined to play a central role in the history of Cuban communism under the name of Fabio Grobart. To day, at the age of 85 and still an active member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, Grobart denies his past links with the Jewish community, but witnesses remember him as the most active propagandist among the Jewish workers. [FN26: Grobart refused to be interviewed by the author, claiming that he had never had contacts with the Jewish community. A book dedicated to Grobart on his 80th birthday does not mention his Hebrew name ? Abraham Simchowitch. Fabio Grobart, Un forjador eternamente joven (Havana, 1985). See also Boris Kozolchyk, The Political Biographies of Three Castro Officials (Santa Monica, 1966), pp. 1-14; interviews:David Utiansky, Tel Aviv, 1981; Osher Schuchinsky, Miami, 1984]"  Andygx (talk) 13:21, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Jewish background

message: Without discussion, examples or rebuttal El C has requested that this page be checked for neutrality. This request might well be evaluated in view of El C's page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:El_C) El Jigue208.65.188.149 15:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: nomination to be checked for its neutrality

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