Posted on 10/14/2024 3:49:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
DNA confirmed he was a Sephardic (Spanish) Jew. Definitely not Italian.
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I think we’re all kinda jews, aren’t we?
RE: This article was a horrid waste of time!
I thought it was revealing.
RE: OMG!! For 500 YEARS he’s been an ITALIAN CATHOLIC....PERIOD!
Yes, an Italian Catholic of JEWISH DESCENT. Just like many Jewish Catholic Christians are today. See Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli of England for instance.
And see here for many other examples:
https://chnetwork.org/converts/jewish/
Columbus’s mother was likely from a Spanish family of conversos, jews that had converted to Christianity. I guess the Dad was Italian. Columbus was a devout Christian.
Well, yeah! Aren’t we all descended from the same people?
Christopher Columbus must have been the very first democrat.
When he left Spain, he didn't know where he was going. When he arrived in North America, he didn't know where he was. And when he got home, he didn't know where he had been. And he did it all on borrowed money.
Interesting reading at Goog Books The Wife of Columbus.
As to the allegations, there was converso-ism before the 15th century but certainly nothing like the way it got going on full burner during Columbus' lifetime.
The idea that he was born Jewish under halakha borders on the absurd. The idea that he has matrilinear Jewish blood that may or may not qualify as "Jewish" under the laws and/or denomination, not so absurd.
The country now called the Dominican Republic gets its name from the capital city Santo Domingo, founded by Columbus. It was given that name because St. Dominic was his father's patron saint.
Excellent-he does have an incredibly engaging and approachable style!
He has a sense of bawdiness in his telling of the tale as an old sailor would, as indeed, he was! I absolutely love his telling of the first encounter between an early French explorer and indigenous Indian tribes along the rocky coast of Maine where the natives treated the explorers to such rude behavior and he described the scene as:
“One can easily imagine the scene, glowering Frenchmen, Indian boys urinating in their direction, braves laughing and turning to bare their buttocks, raising an unholy rackets as only Indians can...”
My apologies to Morison if I have butchered it in my memory, but I could almost visualize him telling the story with the obvious humor on his face...
Columbus DEFINITELY WASN’T ITALIAN because Italy didn’t then exist.
However, his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were weavers in Genoa, seat of the Repubblica di Genova.
"...We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient. We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son," Lorente said in the documentary. "And both in the Y chromosome [male] and in the mitochondrial DNA [transmitted by the mother] of Hernando there are traits compatible with Jewish origin...."
By Jewish law, it doesn't count unless he had UNBROKEN Jewish matrilineality. If any of the women he was directly descended from were Gentile, Columbus could have been a "seed of Israel," in which case he would be considered ethnically BUT NOT RELIGIOUSLY Jewish, and only would have been considered religiously Jewish if he formally converted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality_in_Judaism
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