Apparently, Jews CAN be Pirates!
By It appears, contra Cartman’s assertion in last night’s pirate themed South Park, that Jews CAN be pirates. Someone has even written a book:
But Jews were to be found among the pirates too. Kritzler introduces us to more than one Jewish buccaneer, including a remarkable man named Samuel Palache, a “pirate rabbi” who sent a flotilla of privateers to operate against Spanish shipping in the Mediterranean under the flag of Morocco in 1611 even as he served as the rabbi of the first synagogue in Holland. “Carved on the bow of his ship was a phoenix,” writes Kritzler. “It was his way of saying that the Inquisition might burn individual Jews, but could not destroy their ancestral faith.”
Pirate and rabbi are probably the two cultural markers that I’d least expect to mix…