No, only $125.
Descendants.
Spain is primarily responsible for this mess. They force converted you to Catholic or you either had to leave to the New World or be killed.
Most left to the New World.
You’ve got to love the Catholic church’s nutball rulers.
By the way, Spain is allowing those descendants of the families they threatened to slaughter full citizenship, if you just pay some taxes for them.
200 million seems way too high.
As for me, if any of my German and Scotch-Irish ancestors were Jews, let them have been Ashkenazi Jews… I need all the brainpower I can get.🤗🤗
There is a lot of misinformation out there about the Inquisition.
After the Spanish kicked the Muslims out of Spain after 600 years of occupation all non-Catholics were given the choice of converting or leaving Spain.
Many Jews and others converted in order to stay.
Later rumors circulated that Jews were secretly practicing their religion.
The Spainish king asked the Pope for an inquisition to find out the Jews secretly practicing their religion.
All Jews then in Spain would have become baptized Catholics and would have been educated in the Catholic faith and known the penalties for Apostasy.
Also the numbers commonly reported for the Jews executed by the Inquisition are greatly exaggerated. The records still exist and they are only a few hundred deaths.
Novelist and writer Arthur Koestler maintained that only Sephardi Jews were related to the Old Testament Jews, since most of the Jews in the Middle East were exterminated.
Ashkenazi Jews are only Jews by conversion, he claimed.
Tens of millions, and “This information will then be assessed by a team of experts and researchers who will determine if the applicant has enough information to be awarded the certificate.”
How long will that take? A couple hundred years?
“200 million?”
Oy vey.
Well, considering that David had 2 dozen wives and a bunch of concubines, and Solomon had 300 wives and 700 concubines, and considering the dispersal of Jews throughout the world, there’s probably a whole bunch of “sons of David” running around. I know that the legitimate line was pruned down by Athaliah (only Josiah survived), but there had to be a whole lot of bastards out there.
No, only $125.