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Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the ...
Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition? This tale became widespread around the late 19th century, when large numbers of …
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