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Seinfeld was born on April 29, 1954, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City. His father, Kálmán Seinfeld, a sign painter, was from Hungary and collected jokes that he heard while serving in World War II. His mother, Betty (née Hosni) and her parents, Selim and Salha Hosni, were Mizrahi Jews from Aleppo, Syria.
Children. 4. Chris Joseph Columbus [1] (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. After writing screenplays for several teen comedies in the mid-1980s, he made his directorial debut ...
Luis de Torres (died 1493) was Christopher Columbus 's interpreter on his first voyage to America. De Torres was a converso, a Jewish person who was forced to convert to Christianity or be put to death according to the Inquisition, apparently born Yosef ben HaLevi HaIvri [1] [2] chosen by Columbus for his knowledge of Hebrew, Chaldaic, and ...
Older but no less spurious, the Jewish Columbus or Columbus of Jewish descent surged from an obsessive drive to make the discoverer Spanish. Columbus became an extremeño withVicente Paredes, Galician with Celso García de la Riega, Catalan (but not Jewish) with Juan de UUoa, and a Jew of Catalan lineage with Sal-
Baca. The progenitors of the Baca family of New Mexico were Cristóbal Baca (Vaca) and his wife Ana Ortiz. Cristóbal was a military captain from Mexico City, who arrived in 1600 with his family to help reinforce the Spanish colonial Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. At the time, they had three grown daughters ...
Oct 8, 2015 · Many mysteries surround the origins of Christopher Columbus. One recurrent claim is the explorer had Jewish roots. The arguments are based on a number of observations or interpretations: First, Columbus was knowledgeable of Jewish history and traditions, such as referring to the Second Temple as “The Second House,” a term used only in Jewish sources.
Oct 15, 2014 · Columbus, who was known in Spain as Cristobal Colon and did not speak Italian, signed his last will and testament on May 15, 1506 and made five curious and revealing provisions. Two of his wishes ...
