Christopher Columbus a Converso?

Ima2NYM_LTR

Tue, May 22 2012, 11:20 am

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/.....nsite

What do you think?

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Columbus, who was known in Spain as Cristóbal Colón and didn't speak Italian, signed his last will and testament on May 19, 1506, and made five curious -- and revealing -- provisions.
Two of his wishes -- tithe one-tenth of his income to the poor and provide an anonymous dowry for poor girls -- are part of Jewish customs. He also decreed to give money to a Jew who lived at the entrance of the Lisbon Jewish Quarter.
On those documents, Columbus used a triangular signature of dots and letters that resembled inscriptions found on gravestones of Jewish cemeteries in Spain. He ordered his heirs to use the signature in perpetuity.

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Estelle Irizarry, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, has analyzed the language and syntax of hundreds of handwritten letters, diaries and documents of Columbus and concluded that the explorer's primary written and spoken language was Castilian Spanish. Irizarry explains that 15th-century Castilian Spanish was the "Yiddish" of Spanish Jewry, known as "Ladino." At the top left-hand corner of all but one of the 13 letters written by Columbus to his son Diego contained the handwritten Hebrew letters bet-hei, meaning b'ezrat Hashem (with God's help). Observant Jews have for centuries customarily added this blessing to their letters. No letters to outsiders bear this mark, and the one letter to Diego in which this was omitted was one meant for King Ferdinand.

EmesOrNT

Tue, May 22 2012, 11:32 am

in 1492, columbus was a jew…

The word turkey was coined by Columbus - he saw a fowl and wrote home about it using the biblical tern - Toykee.

Columbus left spain during the time of the inquisition - it was his way of escaping. Legend says that his 3 boats were full of jews.

There are many sources, and stories showing that he was jewish.

Tue, May 22 2012, 11:49 am

I have seen articles both ways (sorry, I don't have links or references at hand) - certainly there is also school of thought that Columbus was not Jewish, and I don't know if we will ever know for sure.

Considering the time and place, I would not be surprised at all if there were quite a few Jews on his ships.

mimivan

Tue, May 22 2012, 12:14 pm

I've read about this before...in my mind...this piece of evidence is absolutely conclusive:

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At the top left-hand corner of all but one of the 13 letters written by Columbus to his son Diego contained the handwritten Hebrew letters bet-hei, meaning b'ezrat Hashem (with God's help).

no non-Jew would write Beit-Hei on letters like this...especially in an era where Jews were being expelled and killed for being Jewish.

oh, and this:

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and the one letter to Diego in which this was omitted was one meant for King Ferdinand.

But let's keep this among ourselves, shall we? Columbus Day is now so politically incorrect, that it would be yet another thing they would blame on the Jews.