Columbus the Converso
Based upon a linguistic analysis of Columbus’s writings, a researcher claims that he may have been of Converso stock. Read about it here. Maybe next year UJA-Federation should co-sponsor the Columbus Day parade with the Columbus Citizens Foundation.
October 20th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I am not sure we need to take credit fir him. I am much more proud of his contemporary Rabbi Yithak Abrabanel – a Jew with some hein