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Oct 10, 2022 · How Columbus brought America its first Jew. Luis de Torres was a refugee of faith –— and, in a way, America’s first pilgrim. Luis De Torres Image by Anya Ulnich. By PJ Grisar October 10 ...
COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER (1451–1500), discoverer of America, thought by some to have been of Marrano extraction. He was himself mysterious when speaking of his origin, apparently having something in his background which he wished to conceal. However, he boasted cryptically about his connection with King David and had a penchant for Jewish and ...
Oct 8, 2018 · Luis de Torres was the first Jew in the Americas, one of the first Westerners to contact the native population, and maybe even the first to develop a smoking habit when he was offered a New World ...
Oct 13, 2014 · A group of Marrano Jews fleeing persecution in Brazil in 1654 settled in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, soon to become New York. These were the first Jews in North America. That very year they ...
Oct 8, 2015 · 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. Second, his financial backers were Jews or of ...
So after having expelled the Jews from your dominions, Your Highnesses, in the same month of January, ordered me to proceed with sufficient armament to the said region of India. Actually, Columbus set sail on August 3, 1492, a day after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain began. Much has been written of Columbus's purported Jewish origins and ...
Oct 5, 2014 · The only synagogue in the Bahamas, established in Freeport in 1972 was named after de Torres, the first Jew in the New World. Thus the life of the first “American Jew” was short and ended abruptly and violently, but over the following decades many Jews would follow in de Torres’ footsteps. The first were Spanish and Portuguese "Marranos ...
