According to Hispanics, Columbus was a crypto-Jew. Most of the people on his ships were jews and they left Spain on the morning of the last day jews could easily leave Spain. But he's not jewish?
@@soniag4516 I'm really getting sick of peoples willful ignorance. They wonder why the world is degenerating, I point out why it is happening, I get called a bigot. Luckily most people I know are clued in now. The idiots who choose to be ill informed are no longer on my list of friends.
@@chrisdawn7752 I strongly disagree with you. I was born in El Salvador and I was force to go to a Catholic church as a child. The way they presented history to me and me classmates was the following: "Christopher Columbus was an explorer NOT A 'CONQUISTADOR', once he had discovered America had Gold. When he went back to Spain, the Royals told him to take soldiera with him. Which he did, but he was still no 'Conquistador'. The only 'CONQUISTADORS' in hispanic coltures were, Hernan Cortez for North America and Francisco Pizarro for south America."
For some weird reason US history on this aspect is not consistent with the Hispanic versions. Anyways, he was Jewish and is only natural that the Catholic Royals and priests would hide something like this on their history. I don't think that it would have been a good strategic advantage to teach later generations that they were evil and that the Jews fooled them. Of course they forced the remaining Jews that Escape Inquisition to America into Catholicism.
@@moshebenshaul what about Ponce De Leon? Florida was a major holding for Spain for over a century. In fact, of the three nations which have controlled post-columbian Florida, (namely Spain, France, and the United States), Spain held it the longest. This is only one of several conquistadors whom you fail to mention. Being Latin American, I understand that you are likely far more educated than I about Central and South American history. However, as a Floridian and history enthusiast, I must disagree with your minimalist roster of actual conquistadors. Almost all historians are in agreement with you regarding Columbus himself, but the claim that the conquistadors number only two is false by any account.
Cristobal Colon was a devout Catholic. He signed his name XPO Ferens and instructed his 2 sons to do the same. It stands for the "Ch" Kye "R" Roe and means Christ bearer. If you read his journals he had a devotion to Mary, the Mother of our Lord. What was most interesting about his journal was his plee to Philip and Isabella to send priests to india as they wanted to learn more about Christ Jesus. It blew my mind when I read King Philip granted him this campaign but said, "you will go west by way of the occident" to which Columbus mentioned no one had ever done. He went on faith and landed in the new world where the Catholic Church has brought the gospel. Glad I decided to read about history for myself instead of getting a freemason education or misinformation. God bless
@@DavidAzua whether or not Christopher Columbus was Catholic or not doesn’t matter. He didn’t stay here and went to South America. 100 years later, the pilgrims came. The separatist’s. they were Christian and want to be separated from the church of England because they too believed they were heretical things like the Roman Catholic Church. They wanted to worship Jesus Christ freely by their conscience not by the Roman Catholicism creeds.
Incredible. I heard Spain , at some point, wanted to bring Jews back. I have no idea if that was enacted but I will say my personal experience in Spain revealed an ongoing hatred among a large segment of the population.
@@mitzvahgolem8366 henceforth you had the inquisitions. he would not allowed to be part of the heretical protestant reformation which England was. You are correct. Queen Isabella of Spain was fiercely Roman Catholic, and stood with the Roman Catholic Church. Of whom this denomination has much blood on their hands. This is because the pope is their authority. The protestant reformation was all about the word of God being the authority and not the pope and all of their man-made religious rules. There are many Catholics to this day that do not even understand what that means because they do not open up the Bible. But they do not know the deep things of Satan I suppose. Many Catholics do not even know their own history of the Roman Catholic faith unfortunately. Which is why history repeats itself over and over again. I am a non-denominational Christian who puts the word of God as the authority over anything.
There are many studies that have proven that Cristobal Colon (Columbus) was born to a family of 'Marranos'; Jews who were forced to convert to Roman-Christianity. The overwhelming majority of those who sailed with Colon were Anusim. They sailed following the Ninth of Av when the remaining Jewish community was expelled from Spain. Colon was helping his fellow 'Converso' brethren.
Sounds like the “discovery” of America is the same story of “promised land” of Canaan. It’s all sick. Expelled (not freed) Entitlement Enslavement The story of “Moses” might actually be Kamose and Ahmose I taking the land back from foreign rule (Hyksos, google the description of them by Flav’).
Yes! Jews wrote about this in news articles in the early 1900s. The Jewish Chronicle was a popular newspaper where you can see the history in the Library of Congress.
@@zeusstani4693yes. You can find this information in the Library of Congress. If anyone where to know about Cristobal Colon would be Latin American countries.
Jay Castillo I have never heard that before. The English, Puritans, were responsible for slaughtering many native Americans. I never heard anything about Columbus.
@@JasonCWaite prof Abramson is definitely Ashkenazi. So are most Jews in the USA, despite the fact that Sephardic Jews established the first synagogues/Jewish communities in colonial America and the early republic of the USA.
This comment comes from the US Virgin Islands. I am newly granted authority to give tours to the second oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, here in St. Thomas, VI. The little synagogue, rebuilt in 1833 after a fire in 1831, has a sand floor, only one of five in the world. The influence of Jews in the Caribbean is enormous. Alexander Hamilton was educated in a Jewish school. This topic leads to the body of your video. Thanks for the quick answer to a visitor’s question and the very interesting lecture.
Maybe he set sail after 9-Av because of the large number of Anusim on his crew? As far as I know, it is widely believed that many Anusim used this profession to flee the antisemitic laws and environment of Spain at that time, as evidenced by Jewish customs practiced by Caribbean populations.
@@MJ-ub6usthey are Mexican professors from Mexico City and also from New Mexico. You can also find this information in The Jewish Chronicle article that was in publication in 1910s to 1940s. Americans want to stay away from it but Mexico doesn’t care about who it offends but about being accurate.
With all the respect Rabbi, Cristobal Colón is my 14 th great grandfather and he was a secret Jew from Portugal. Both him and his wife (my 14th great grandfather Doña Filipa Moñiz Perestrero were from Portugal. The secret Jews had to hide their identity. There are many works that proof his Jewish past. I was born in Puerto Rico, the island he discovered in his second voyage. I have meet long distance cousins also related to him and for me as one of his great granddaughters it means a lot to me. What he did was a huge Mitzvah! I and those relatives that I have meet all of us have return to the Jewish faith. And I’m an orthodox Jew. Please show respect for us, the benei anousim.
Because of my Sephardic roots I'm also returning to Judaism. It's hard to trace my Portuguese and Spanish ancestors because I do not speak the language, yet, there are many. Thank you for your post.
Que bello es saber la verdad de nuestro linaje. Perdone que te pregunte sobre tú familia pero de que parte del Borinquén es tu familia? De parte de mi madre que es de Utuado, mi abuela tenía muchas tendencias Judíos. Ella no era católica, se crió sin el fanatismo de la iglesia ramera, mas ella era Pentecostal. Ella no trabajaba ni salía mucho los sábados. Le pregunté sobre esa costumbre y me dijo que ella santificaba el Sábado porque el domingo tenía que trabajar en la viña del Señor. No comía lechón y revisaba los huevos de las gallinas por l vena de sangre. Aprendí que muchos crypto judíos entraron por el puerto de Arecibo y permanecieron en Utuado, Adjuntas y otros pueblos en la cordillera central. Mi papá es “Mexicano” pero su antecedentes salieron de Evora, Portugal en el año 1628 y se establecieron en Los Alto de Jalisco y en Aguascalientes. Apellidos Palos, Pereira y Ramírez de Arellano. Son narizones y trigueros. Algunos de la familia Palos se fueron para Monterrey, San Luis Potosí y las hijas se casaron con la familia De León y Carbajal en San Luis Potosí. Genéticamente tengo las marcas típica del Levant, Judío, Anatolia, Y Norte Africano. La mayoría de raíz de mi familia “Mexicano” salieron Portugal para centro Mexico y los restos salieron de Badajoz, Extremadura, España. A saber de esta realidad, me siento completo en mi ser. Y tú?
First of all: you should know that after/around 31:00 the screen goes wonky and needs fixing. Otherwise, I loved your 'joke' about the suit. It's a great analogy to the title of your lecture.
Who in any period of this worlds history wants to “act” or “ look” Jewish when you were executed for those types of behaviors or even suspicion. I don’t understand how this lecture is accepted as a possible accepted theory
@@Nota769 I AGREE 1000%! Who in their right mind would want to act this way. If you read what I just wrote to Dr. Abramson, you'll see that my own quest for finding out more and more information after our trip to Spain for 3 weeks 1 1/2 years ago makes me believe that he was, indeed, descended from crypto-Jews.
Columbus told Jewish jokes, had Jewish friends, had Jewish backers, and told people he was Jewish. However, somehow Prof Abramson is convinced he was probably not Jewish?
He wrote to his sons in Hebrew too right? His Italian sucked. His Castilian perfect. His real name Salvador Fernandes Zarco? The conquistadores names were Jewish surnames. & his financiers were Sephardic Jews too cause Queen Isabel & Ferdinand were broke w/wars and exploration and needed money.. only people w/money were wealthy Sephardics. What is the prof missing here? I'm not even a prof or expert and this seems blatant.
Lots of non-Jews in the USA/Canada/anyplace with lots of Jews have Jrewish friends,have Jewish backers and tell Jewish jokes. I'm not convinced that they are all Jews. Which Jewish jokes did Columbus tell?
@@herr5262 Just curious, how'd you come by the name? I've met exactly one Jewish "Christopher". His mother was Jewish (so by Orthodox Jewish law he was Jewish), his father was Irish-American and he was named after his non-Jewish father. He was actually baptized Roman Catholic at birth, so you could argue he was also Catholic by Catholic law. But he married a Jewish girl, like his mom, and he now identifies as Jewish, which, by Jewish religious law, he is, even with the unlikely name of Chris Reilly Jr.
Salvador Fernandes Zarco, that’s what his real name was, born in the Village of Cuba, Kingdom of Portugal, the unmarried son of Prince Fernando Duke of Beja (third son of King Duarte) and Isabel Gonçalves Zarco (daughter of João Gonçalves Zarco, one of the 3 navigators who discovered the Madeira Islands, who is supposedly of Jewish ancestry). Notice that the island Salvador landed at in the Americas he named, Cuba.
Thank you. Yes Christopher Columbus was his ritualistic name, since he belonged to the Ordem do Infante Christopher meaning Christ, Columbus meaning bird, dove (peace) There's a statue of him in cuba Portugal
@@gtheskater Not "Columbus", Colón or Colom (he only signed that way, and in his son's biography of him, he wrote that the latinised form should be "Colonus").
I was born in a small town in central Mexico, called Cerritos San Luis Potosí. My grandmother told me that her maternal uncles were tall men with red hair and blue eyes. All my life I wondered where this people came from. Their last name was Guzmán and Turrubiartes. Not only them, but there were Cervantes and so many other last names. After many years of research, I came to the conclusion that this were Shepherds Crypo Jews that had fled the brutal Catholic persecution. I got back as far to a man named Don Martin De Turrubiartes, who lived in Cerrritos in the late XVI century. There’s no doubt in my mind that Cristobal Colon was a Jew. The Shepherds fled to the ends of the earth to escape de brutality of religions, including their own sometimes. If Colon was investigated in the now, he would be called a liar and imposter for declaring his Jewish blood, particularly the Hasidic Jewish people. I gave up on being religious.
i though the exposition was too cursory, there's so much more depth to this delicate matter -- for example, the fact that he pitched his atlantic expedition to both the portuguese and (later) spanish crowns and had jewish investors to back him in both cases. that he was fluent in portuguese (a surprising fact given he was supposedly genoan), that he married felipa, the daughter of the governor of the madeira island, bartolomeu perestrello, of a more than likely converso family, that his writings are impregnated with old testament (not new) citations, that he starts his journal stating that he set sail one day after the "day of the expulsion of the jews", etc. i suggest you take a look at this book: O Português Cristóvão Colombo - Agente Secreto do Rei Dom João II (in portuguese)
dan .fore the records i was an israeli seaman on board of '''chalom'' in the 60 i meet a family of anusim praying in a secret synagogue... there , they claim that over 80 porcent of madeira are anoussim en marriage only bitween them so when i pray with in the synagogue irealise they are thrue jewich lyke me whit exactly the same traditions'
If Columbus wasn't Jewish, it certainly seems like he wanted to be one. I live in Ann Arbor, MI. and after listening to Dr. A. making so many references to food in this piece, I have resolved that I must go have some Chinese for dinner. Thank you once again Dr. Abramson for the wonderful enlightenment and influence you share with us like no other. From one Canadian ex-pat to another. :)
"He had an aqualine nose and light-colored eyes; his complexion too was light and tending to bright red. In his youth his hair was blonde" From "The Life of the Admiral" written by his son Ferdinand
Great that comments are on for this one. Why were the comments turned off for the (sadly very short) polish origins video? Did some jerks ruin it for the rest of us? Great to see the comments here - this is a cool question. I think Columbus was a "converso." That 1492 timing was pretty key and besides, his name being "Christofero" - literally "christ bearer" takes on a new meaning if the confessions of PUBLIC conversion was felt to him as a kind of burden.
The history does not show or claim that the Spanish and Portuguese had anything to do with the founding of New Netherlands and it does not mention the Spanish and Portuguese as bringing over Africans immediately to anywhere outside of their respective empires at all if the is accurate it would reflect and mention that and include documented proof that could be taught in history class so it could be known if it is true for purposes of historical accuracy because the Spanish and Portuguese did not found Rhode Island or New Netherland and the places that were part of the Spanish empire were Florida, what became Mexico which included the American Southwest and most of the West and Central America into most of South America along with a lot of the Caribbean. The only colony of Portugal was Brazil.
I would like to explore my Jewishness, my ancestry. Recently, I have my DNA results, it shows that I am 4% Sephardic Jew, while the rest of my ancestors are mainly from the Iberian Peninsula (39%), Canary Islands, and in less proportion Italy, Greece, Ireland and England. Your lectures awaken my curiosity. I have been attending a Jewish Temple in my area, and my devotion for this religion is growing even though I have not converted as of yet.
@@soniag4516 It certainly IS a religion. From this and your previous comment, Sonia...you don't seem to like Jews, do you? A bit anti-Semitic, are you?
Columbus did not signed his name as Christophorus Columbus (Italian) or Cristóbal Colón (Spanish) but as Cristoforo colon in Portuguese, also everything points that Columbus was a Jewish but there's no definite proof of it
@@HenryAbramsonPhD yes i did, i think the Jewish community could benefit if you went to Portugal and see what historically texts say about Columbus th-cam.com/video/BfX-RbOYwJg/w-d-xo.html
Perhaps, Prof Abramson, as a historian at this distance in time, you don't feel the the evidence is conclusive...however, it was a dangerous time for Jews and conversos and I would say that not many people would hang around with a crowd that was in severe disfavor unless they were connected in some way....and that cryptic message/signature clinched it for me. Have you ever read THE JEWISH PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and what are your thoughts on it? Would love a lecture on this, as it conects to the Columbus question. ...
I read it , and yes, the writer came to the conclusion he was Jewish. I think the evidence is clear that he had Jewish blood and had sympathy for their plight. The book puts out a supposition that his desire to find a new world was to establish a "homeland" for fleeing Jews and conversos. That would, in my mind, intimate a clear connection. How many Christians in those days would care about the fate of Jews, enough to search for a new homeland?. Only another Jew, IMHO.
Hard to believe he wanted to be seen as a jew back at the time of horrendous prosecution of jews and Judaism. He's mom said to be from the Jewish descent (according to the latest research) and it's probably true. That actually makes him a fully kosher Jew.
Columbus was from Portugal; and in his letters he refers Portugal has his beloved home furthermore why would a Spanish, Italian or polish person give Portuguese names to all the land he found without ever being in Portugal or be a Portuguese citizen himself
What can I do to apply to your classes as a student? I am a senior at my current school in FL but I live in Washington state moving soon to the East coast again and looking for a graduate degree in Jewish studies or related. Any suggestion will be welcome.
19:30 - Text direction objection is easy to overcome here - the rest of the letter is Roman alphabet, a converso WOULD "left justify" a Hebrew acronym. He is making it fit with the rest of the text. If i was putting roman numeral page numbers or titles or chapter headings in a Hebrew text, (would I could currently write such a thing) I would probably right-justify them. It makes total sense.
I stumbled upon a few of your lectures, Dr. Abramson, and can’t quit watching them and enjoying them fully. Thank you for sharing in such a classroom-like form your research in History. About this lecture, all I can say, based in my basic biographic knowledge of Columbus life is that he is supposed to be from a fishermen’s family of Genoa, the Italian name was Colombo, Cristoforo, and the remains of his house with a plaque, are just outside the old wall of Genoa. Colombo, according to some historians, comes from colonizing or being a colono in a certain area (Genoa?) but as he moved around then to España, modified his name to Cristobal Colon. Thank you again, Dr. Abramson.
YaherKoach Dr Henry, best regards from Down Under, Melbourne Australia. I believe this story is accurate, please tell me if it isn't all comments welcome. Columbus and his crew on his voyages brought back beautiful "talking parrots" birds which delighted the then courts of Spain and eventually all the courts of Europe. These talking (squawking) aesthetically pleasing birds were a novelty , the Royal Court had never seen or heard anything like it. Interestingly in Hasidism these 'Talking birds" are used as an analogy for performing Mitzvot Torah Commandments that are exceptional! is this true?
I just tuned in but I wanted to add that Christopher Columbus real name was Cristo-bal Colon (edit: I don't know why the fact that his real name being Cristo-bal, but that definitely could be a Jewish name, Baal being the word for lord and a pagan idol in the Old Testament as well as the suffix to many Israelite names, alternate Bosheth) and he was Venetian, which many believe to have been settled by Phoenicians, which makes sense. Syria and Lebanon are where Phoenicia was, Canaanites in the Semitic tongue, for some reason call their money Lira, like in Italy. So he was not Jewish but if you read the Bible even Jacob married the daughter of Leban-(on) and the Israelites frequently married Canaanites. Under Solomon (as) they were allied with the Kingdom of Phoenicia, King Hiram of Tyre his friend and if you look into it you will find that Solomon and Hiram sent out people to colonize other territories, the Phoenicians were expert sailors, which explains why Venice is a city of canals quite well. Cristo-Baal Colon aka Columbus was a scumbag, and the source for the word Colony.
The xian tour guides we had in Spain for three weeks all agreed that the story of Columbus hurting the natives in the New World were ALL LIES to defame him. They ALL claimed that there is iron clad proof that this was NOT the case.
@@savtamarlene You are naive to simply believe what some people told you about some guy who lived in the 1400's. There is no proof. There is what was written by people who knew him while he was alive and if that's true, that's the end of it. Do you believe historians can see into the past? They have to read books if you want to learn about Columbus, that's where you need to start. Spanish literature from the 1400's about Columbus. And you can't even be sure about what they wrote.
@@savtamarlene With the well known activities of the Spanish and the Catholic Church in the time of Columbus, it seems unlikely that Columbus was any kind of decent human being. He was an employee of the Spanish crown in a land with no laws that applied to Europeans. He could basically do whatever he wanted and nobody would know. I am sure he probably did plenty of terrible things.
@Henry Abramson astrolabe and quadrant couldn't be made in wood cause it would not last and go against the traditional built of all maratine tools which were made either in coper or bronze, I can't actually stated there was no development attempts but I can confidently say this development in used materials never happened in Portugal, on average the more known or powerful the captain were the more precious were the tools, some even made of gold and precious jules
@@chrisarias4055 I get that it was just a joke, and probably you meant no harm, but if you took away anything from the lecture, you might have learned something about the history of the Jews of Spain and Portugal. (Sephardic Jews.) They wouldn't have had Ashkenazic-style German-derived surnames ending in "stein". (At any rate at that point in history, the Ashkenazic Jews, who lived in the German lands, didn't generally use surnames.) Just sayin'...
12:00 - Poland or sicily, interesting. If that portrait can be trusted, (IF!) he sure looks more polish than Sicilian. I feel confident that he could easily have had a mixed background from either place.
How can you tell a Jew? I learn more by watching beyond the 15-20 minute marker. Call me a jerk but I can be a bit too esoteric at times too. Thank you for your lectures. I feel like I'm learning another language.
I recently saw a documentary on this subject and they tried to dna match some of Columbus’ relatives, but either couldn’t get a good dna sample or could not get access to the remains. Therefore, the issue remains ambiguous…🙏
❤”Look how good his suit looks” . … watching this in 2024 … Thank you Christopher and Ann Marie for supporting us in St. Thomas, USVI for Irmala and Maria in 2017.
I agree with you that Columbus had a different origin story than what we're commonly told, and I do agree with you that he went out of his way to conceal his true identity, but I do not agree with you that he was a jew. There just isn't enough evidence to support that claim. Not once in his writings did he ever mention that his entire motive for finding the new world was to find a new home for the prosecuted jews. Even if he did go out of his way to hide his jewish identity, how did he obtain funding from the king and queen? The common jewish argument that "he was funded by two rich jews" does not make any sense. So then how was the spanish crown able to claim the new discovered lands as their own if it was solely funded by a few rich individuals? So if he was in fact able to obtain funding from the king and queen, then they would have surely figured out that he was a jew....seeing as it would have been virtually impossible to gain an audience with European royal dynasty at the time without them fully knowing what families they were doing business with. I feel as if people who support this argument cling onto the fact that he must have been jewish just because the year he sailed was the same as the year that jews were ordered to start packing up and leaving Spain. This disregards the fact that Columbus for years prior was trying to obtain funding from various royal families including the Portuguese and french. Also, Columbus was able to marry a catholic portuguese woman from a noble family. If he was jewish, why would he have done this? And how would her family have let this happen? You must not forget that the 1400s was a vastly different time which did not allow for such unities. And also, if he was jewish, and his primary goal was to "find a new land for the jews" then how come it never came to fruition? Why did he return to spain and return back to the new world for a second and third voyage and essentially not fulfill this plan of "populating the new world with the jewish people"? Perhaps I am wrong, but it just does not add up in the context of the late 15th century. The theory that is the most plausible is the Galician theory, which states that Columbus was actually the man known as Pedro Alvarez de Soutomaior, also known as Pedro Madruga, a Galician noblemen, born into a wealthy family of sailors who had strong ties to the spanish crown. Later in his life, Pedro Madruga gained enemies amongst the spanish monarchs and had to flee to portugal during the irmandao revolution in Galicia (might be mispelling that), where he gained his connections to the portuguese navy. When it came time to obtain funding by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand (which he did in fact), both the King and Queen knew of his reputation, and only agreed to fund his voyages if he changed his identity....so he took his mother's maiden name, Colon, and one of his middle names, Cristobal. Many people also claim that his infamously mysterious signature had jewish meaning behind it. But this, once again, is weak evidence. The Galician theory explains it far better. It has already been decoded by Galician historians as simply representing the Soutomaior family tree, each letter representing a portion of the names of his father, grandfather, and great grandfather, simply paying homage to his true family roots knowing that his identity had to be switched. The evidence is compelling and I suggest any one reading this to do their research.... over 80 calligraphic experts have confirmed that both Pedro Madruga and Columbus' writings are of the same individual. Another compelling piece of evidence is that he named over 100 of the first locations he discovered in the new world after several locations along the Rias Baixas, in Pontevedra, Galicia. Also, there is EMPIRICAL evidence which states that both Colombus and Madruga had children who beared the same names, had wives who beared the same names, were both in Madeira at the same time, and were both in the Spanish courts at the same time. There is FAR MORE evidence which supports the Galician theory. Unfortunately, it just seems to me to be a common case of groups of people trying to claim Columbus as their own, while cherrypicking the very little amount of proof that there is that he was actually jewish, or Catalan, or Polish, or Portuguese, or Italian.
Note from the future - DNA testing says HE WAS a Sephardic Jew. The history always added up - his Italian Mistress was from a family of Fabric Dyers - almost solely run by Jews in The Mediterranean. Although he lived in Genoa he may have been Spanish but Genoa was an international port. Jews from every country lived in every port of the Mediterranean as merchants and ship owners/captains and spoke 'Ladino' - so it never meant he was 'Italian' necessarily. They often migrated from port to port all the way to Turkey. Genoa was an independent City State at the time. His wife was Portuguese Nobility (and also maybe Jewish) so he spoke Portuguese mainly.
According to historical records, his wife Filipa Moniz, was a portuguese noble person, how do you say she is 'Italian'? Besides, there isn't any document, that I know of, that can prove he lived in Genoa. 'Ladino' is a more recent concept. Normally, Sephardic Jews spoke the languages of the countries they were living in (not all had a good command of Hebrew).
@@Krka1716 Yes -I got confused - it was his mistress and that family was in Genoa, it's been documented. Yes, his proper wife was Portuguese Nobility but there was speculation that even that family were Jewish and had gained status through wealth as many Jews did.. She had holdings on Madeira - where he left from to the New World and where many Jews had holdings. Ladino was formed in Spain and spread all through the Mediterranean after the expulsion.
I don't buy that Columbus thought he was reaching Asia. I've read he studied (I think his name was) Eratosthenes who determined the circumference of the Earth within a couple hundred miles before the common era. I also believe the Phoenicians supplied the tin for the Bronze Age from the new world and closely guarded their trade secrets for millennia. I also read recently that the first European contact with tobacco was one Jew, the translator, and one Gentile whom Columbus sent ashore to explore.
Check out Christopher's journals that were sent to Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian and his communications with Amerigo Vespuci. They tell an even more fascinating story!!
Not likely to be jew, but not 100% clear, most probably Columbus was a great Portuguese, and he and portuguese king did their job so nicely done, that until today no one knows the truth about his identity, because he served his King so well until death. His job was to send Spanish interests to everywhere but India. Well done Colon, Portugal will remember you forever!
As I am deaf since birth then I am Jewish in my Italian ancestry in my lineage; I am greatly disappointed that "Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?" isn't captioning for the deaf in TH-cam in my concern. Christa D"Auria
Of course Christopher Columbus was Jewish . 🤔 My mother had an uncle named Cristoval, he was also called Tio Tova, uncle Tova. Hispanics tend to shorten names, in the case of my mother's uncle Cristoval was shorten to Tova. Now everyone knows that the Hebrew letter Bet is also Vet. So let us look at Christopher Columbus's name in Castilian/Spain. Cris-tova-l , so right there in his name is the Hebrew word tova which means good. Another example of this type of crypto naming is the name Nestor. It's a common name in both my parents Family. Break the name Nestor in half you can see that it's Nest-or. In Hebrew the word for mericle is Nes, and for light is Or. So my point is that the Anusim were very creative when it came to names. So yes, Christopher Columbus was Jewish.
You did a great job giving enough tidbits of why Columbus/Colon might well be Jewish that you had me convinced. Therefore, why are you so convinced otherwise? By the way the jokes are great! Bruce Markowitz(from Efrat, Israel)
Until we find other documents nobody knows... But he did marry a very catholic Portuguese woman of very influencial and well connected family portuguese family. They would probably demand proof he was catholic as well in those times.
It seems to me that Dr. Abramson is acting emotionally and probably de did not prepare for his lecture. He talked 1/3 of his time abt Columbus and 2/3 abt the inquisition and its effect on the Jews.
Thank you Dr Abramson. Find your lectures very interesting. It's been rumoured in my family that I am descended from Sephardic Jews, though I was born and brought up a gentile and a Christian. Will get the DNA test done but it's interesting, if I am pure gentile, that I am drawn to Israel and Jewish people and history.
@@salemhefeida8012 Not true. A myth. Most who eventually followed were idol worshippers. MOST WERE NOT JEWS. Tune in to Rabbi Tovia Singer...his erudition will open your eyes to the truth!
Curious, my guess would be yes he was, but I am a long way from certain. On the other hand there is (or appears to be) a Jewish influence in his early years in ships that may have influenced him. Then again my view is as an outsider looking in and yours is that of the insider looking out. We agree on not proven, shall we leave it at that.
Uh... no.. he wrote his own sons in Hebrew right? Also, his Italian was HORRID. But his Castilian perfect. The conquistadores were Jewish surnames. And his real name was #SalvadorFernandesZarco? He seems WAY more Sephardic.
I loved that joke too. Thx for sharing it. I also wanted to find out from you Mr. Abramson if you have any information about the Zarah tribe migration to Spain? I’m of the opinion that Zarah members settled in Spain. Plz if you can give me any data would greatly appreciate it.
Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo; c. 1451 - 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Born in the Republic of Genoa, under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages and his efforts to establish settlements on the island of Hispaniola initiated the permanent European colonization of the New World. At a time when European kingdoms were beginning to establish new trade routes and colonies, motivated by imperialism and economic competition, Columbus proposed to reach the East Indies (South and Southeast Asia) by sailing westward. This eventually received the support of the Spanish Crown, which saw a chance to enter the spice trade with Asia through this new route. During his first voyage in 1492, he reached the New World instead of arriving in Japan as he had intended, landing on an island in the Bahamas archipelago that he named San Salvador. Over the course of three more voyages, he visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming all of it for the Crown of Castile. Though preceded by the short-lived Norse colonization of North America (led by Leif Erikson) in the 11th century, Columbus is the European explorer credited with establishing and documenting routes to the Americas, securing lasting European ties to the Americas, and inaugurating a period of exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for centuries. His exertions thereby strongly contributed to the development of the modern Western world. He also founded the transatlantic slave trade, and has been accused by several historians of initiating the genocide of the Hispaniola natives. Columbus himself saw his accomplishments primarily in the light of spreading the Christian religion. Columbus had set course in hopes of finding a western route to the Indies (Asia). He called the inhabitants of the lands that he visited indios (Spanish for "Indians"). His strained relationship with the Spanish Crown (and its appointed colonial administrators in America) led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits that he and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the Crown.
Here I am after three years of your teaching. I just finish a Spanish lecture of the Columbus Jewish identity. You mentioned a lot of good points that only Jewish people will do. Why would he not leave on the 9th? Only a Jew will know the significance and that’s why he waited. Why did he made a point to say the significance of the day he was leaving, referring to the expulsion of the Jews? Colon left his will to one of his son’s, in his will he told him to give 10% to charity. Who gives 10% to charity? Only Jews.
The large part of the confusion is that Christopher Columbus was descended from Khazars that we largely know today as Israelis or ashlenazi Jews which are not actually of Semitic origin but descend from Japheth which is why it’s confusing when he says that Columbus is not a Jew it’s because he doesn’t view the ashkenazis as the true Jews but it is an interesting point to note that Columbus also came from this people because this people had perpertrated the most corruption upon the earth yet always seem to stay hidden in the backgrounds and are never viewed as perpetrators or instigators but are always at the middle of every conflict or overseeing and funding both sides. It’s also an interesting point when we look at the fact that the majority of the slave ships and plantations when we check the documentation the owners was Jewish but we only here about white people enslaving blacks you never ever hear about the Jewish people and there hand in slavery
cantblockthetruth absolute nonsense. All of these things that you listed are tired tropes and have been overwhelmingly disproven and yet you and others like you still cling to them to keep your narrative going . Isn’t there enough anti-Semitic friendly TH-cam channels to post on . Why waste your time and brain power watching this video, that is if you even watched it .
This aged well
According to Hispanics, Columbus was a crypto-Jew. Most of the people on his ships were jews and they left Spain on the morning of the last day jews could easily leave Spain.
But he's not jewish?
yup 60 percent of Americans viewing his "lectures" have no clue to the truth of the matter
@@soniag4516 I'm really getting sick of peoples willful ignorance. They wonder why the world is degenerating, I point out why it is happening, I get called a bigot. Luckily most people I know are clued in now. The idiots who choose to be ill informed are no longer on my list of friends.
@@chrisdawn7752 I strongly disagree with you. I was born in El Salvador and I was force to go to a Catholic church as a child. The way they presented history to me and me classmates was the following:
"Christopher Columbus was an explorer NOT A 'CONQUISTADOR', once he had discovered America had Gold. When he went back to Spain, the Royals told him to take soldiera with him. Which he did, but he was still no 'Conquistador'. The only 'CONQUISTADORS' in hispanic coltures were, Hernan Cortez for North America and Francisco Pizarro for south America."
For some weird reason US history on this aspect is not consistent with the Hispanic versions. Anyways, he was Jewish and is only natural that the Catholic Royals and priests would hide something like this on their history. I don't think that it would have been a good strategic advantage to teach later generations that they were evil and that the Jews fooled them. Of course they forced the remaining Jews that Escape Inquisition to America into Catholicism.
@@moshebenshaul what about Ponce De Leon? Florida was a major holding for Spain for over a century. In fact, of the three nations which have controlled post-columbian Florida, (namely Spain, France, and the United States), Spain held it the longest. This is only one of several conquistadors whom you fail to mention. Being Latin American, I understand that you are likely far more educated than I about Central and South American history. However, as a Floridian and history enthusiast, I must disagree with your minimalist roster of actual conquistadors. Almost all historians are in agreement with you regarding Columbus himself, but the claim that the conquistadors number only two is false by any account.
it's always a pleasure to see a new upload by Dr. Abramson.
Cristobal Colon was a devout Catholic. He signed his name XPO Ferens and instructed his 2 sons to do the same. It stands for the "Ch" Kye "R" Roe and means Christ bearer. If you read his journals he had a devotion to Mary, the Mother of our Lord.
What was most interesting about his journal was his plee to Philip and Isabella to send priests to india as they wanted to learn more about Christ Jesus. It blew my mind when I read King Philip granted him this campaign but said, "you will go west by way of the occident" to which Columbus mentioned no one had ever done. He went on faith and landed in the new world where the Catholic Church has brought the gospel.
Glad I decided to read about history for myself instead of getting a freemason education or misinformation. God bless
@@DavidAzua whether or not Christopher Columbus was Catholic or not doesn’t matter. He didn’t stay here and went to South America. 100 years later, the pilgrims came. The separatist’s. they were Christian and want to be separated from the church of England because they too believed they were heretical things like the Roman Catholic Church. They wanted to worship Jesus Christ freely by their conscience not by the Roman Catholicism creeds.
from 1492 until 1968 it was illegal in Spain NOT to be Catholic...fact
Really !!!! Till 1968 unbelievable
I wonder if are there any more there who held on to their faith
I've read the same! This particular inquistion lasted for about 300 years and spead to MANY countries, continents and islands in the Caribbean.
Incredible. I heard Spain , at some point, wanted to bring Jews back. I have no idea if that was enacted but I will say my personal experience in Spain revealed an ongoing hatred among a large segment of the population.
That was the good old days.
@@mitzvahgolem8366 henceforth you had the inquisitions. he would not allowed to be part of the heretical protestant reformation which England was. You are correct. Queen Isabella of Spain was fiercely Roman Catholic, and stood with the Roman Catholic Church. Of whom this denomination has much blood on their hands. This is because the pope is their authority. The protestant reformation was all about the word of God being the authority and not the pope and all of their man-made religious rules. There are many Catholics to this day that do not even understand what that means because they do not open up the Bible. But they do not know the deep things of Satan I suppose. Many Catholics do not even know their own history of the Roman Catholic faith unfortunately. Which is why history repeats itself over and over again. I am a non-denominational Christian who puts the word of God as the authority over anything.
There are many studies that have proven that Cristobal Colon (Columbus) was born to a family of 'Marranos'; Jews who were forced to convert to Roman-Christianity. The overwhelming majority of those who sailed with Colon were Anusim. They sailed following the Ninth of Av when the remaining Jewish community was expelled from Spain. Colon was helping his fellow 'Converso' brethren.
No
Sounds like the “discovery” of America is the same story of “promised land” of Canaan.
It’s all sick.
Expelled (not freed)
Entitlement
Enslavement
The story of “Moses” might actually be Kamose and Ahmose I taking the land back from foreign rule (Hyksos, google the description of them by Flav’).
@@zeusstani4693Yes.
Yes! Jews wrote about this in news articles in the early 1900s. The Jewish Chronicle was a popular newspaper where you can see the history in the Library of Congress.
@@zeusstani4693yes. You can find this information in the Library of Congress. If anyone where to know about Cristobal Colon would be Latin American countries.
After minute 28:00 the video is broken, but the sound is okay.
Seems as if you really don't want him to be Jewish in spite of a lot of evidential proof and heavy clues that he was.
Jay Castillo I have never heard that before. The English, Puritans, were responsible for slaughtering many native Americans. I never heard anything about Columbus.
I agree. However, Jewish people lean towards excluding people instead of including them. Their isolation has become self-imposed
Is Prof Abramson an Ashkanazi vs a Sephardic like Colombus and many of those of the Americas & Europe?
@@JasonCWaite prof Abramson is definitely Ashkenazi. So are most Jews in the USA, despite the fact that Sephardic Jews established the first synagogues/Jewish communities in colonial America and the early republic of the USA.
@@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272 most of the Jews in the USA are Latino, they just don't know it. There's a reason why that's so.
Why, why, why would anybody at that date and time would anybody want to pretend that he was Jewish??
And why would Ferdinand and Isabella have commissioned him if they thought he might be Jewish?
@@cindys9491They were busy confiscating the property from Jews and dividing the robbery between them and the Roman Catholic Church.
@@cindys9491he was Jewish... I don't know.
I didnt see this one in your Sephardic Playlist! Glad TH-cam recommended it!
Mr. Abramson please keep making these videos on YT. Eyeopening.
I am so glad that you enjoy the videos!
@@HenryAbramsonPhDwhat's your response on the DNA smoking gun?
This comment comes from the US Virgin Islands. I am newly granted authority to give tours to the second oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, here in St. Thomas, VI. The little synagogue, rebuilt in 1833 after a fire in 1831, has a sand floor, only one of five in the world. The influence of Jews in the Caribbean is enormous. Alexander Hamilton was educated in a Jewish school. This topic leads to the body of your video. Thanks for the quick answer to a visitor’s question and the very interesting lecture.
Maybe he set sail after 9-Av because of the large number of Anusim on his crew? As far as I know, it is widely believed that many Anusim used this profession to flee the antisemitic laws and environment of Spain at that time, as evidenced by Jewish customs practiced by Caribbean populations.
Mexico professors say he was Jewish...Jewish people said he was jewish...
NotMEUS Led by Faith, not by sight! pza si t’as à à à M6 à à à à Alexis t’as à à àSi t’as à à si t’as à à outils est à à à
NotMEUS Led by Faith, not by sight! Hi may I ask. What part of Mexico are you talking about these professors are from?
@@MJ-ub6usthey are Mexican professors from Mexico City and also from New Mexico. You can also find this information in The Jewish Chronicle article that was in publication in 1910s to 1940s. Americans want to stay away from it but Mexico doesn’t care about who it offends but about being accurate.
With all the respect Rabbi, Cristobal Colón is my 14 th great grandfather and he was a secret Jew from Portugal. Both him and his wife (my 14th great grandfather Doña Filipa Moñiz Perestrero were from Portugal. The secret Jews had to hide their identity. There are many works that proof his Jewish past. I was born in Puerto Rico, the island he discovered in his second voyage. I have meet long distance cousins also related to him and for me as one of his great granddaughters it means a lot to me. What he did was a huge Mitzvah! I and those relatives that I have meet all of us have return to the Jewish faith. And I’m an orthodox Jew. Please show respect for us, the benei anousim.
Because of my Sephardic roots I'm also returning to Judaism. It's hard to trace my Portuguese and Spanish ancestors because I do not speak the language, yet, there are many. Thank you for your post.
Que bello es saber la verdad de nuestro linaje. Perdone que te pregunte sobre tú familia pero de que parte del Borinquén es tu familia?
De parte de mi madre que es de Utuado, mi abuela tenía muchas tendencias Judíos. Ella no era católica, se crió sin el fanatismo de la iglesia ramera, mas ella era Pentecostal. Ella no trabajaba ni salía mucho los sábados. Le pregunté sobre esa costumbre y me dijo que ella santificaba el Sábado porque el domingo tenía que trabajar en la viña del Señor. No comía lechón y revisaba los huevos de las gallinas por l vena de sangre. Aprendí que muchos crypto judíos entraron por el puerto de Arecibo y permanecieron en Utuado, Adjuntas y otros pueblos en la cordillera central.
Mi papá es “Mexicano” pero su antecedentes salieron de Evora, Portugal en el año 1628 y se establecieron en Los Alto de Jalisco y en Aguascalientes. Apellidos Palos, Pereira y Ramírez de Arellano. Son narizones y trigueros. Algunos de la familia Palos se fueron para Monterrey, San Luis Potosí y las hijas se casaron con la familia De León y Carbajal en San Luis Potosí.
Genéticamente tengo las marcas típica del Levant, Judío, Anatolia, Y Norte Africano. La mayoría de raíz de mi familia “Mexicano” salieron Portugal para centro Mexico y los restos salieron de Badajoz, Extremadura, España.
A saber de esta realidad, me siento completo en mi ser.
Y tú?
Do not expect respect from a Khazar brother shalom
@@pokemania_k you got that right brother, Shalom
Soo it’s true.. @@pokemania_k
First of all: you should know that after/around 31:00 the screen goes wonky and needs fixing.
Otherwise, I loved your 'joke' about the suit. It's a great analogy to the title of your lecture.
Makes no sense to me
Who in any period of this worlds history wants to “act” or “ look” Jewish when you were executed for those types of behaviors or even suspicion. I don’t understand how this lecture is accepted as a possible accepted theory
@@Nota769 I AGREE 1000%! Who in their right mind would want to act this way. If you read what I just wrote to Dr. Abramson, you'll see that my own quest for finding out more and more information after our trip to Spain for 3 weeks 1 1/2 years ago makes me believe that he was, indeed, descended from crypto-Jews.
Columbus told Jewish jokes, had Jewish friends, had Jewish backers, and told people he was Jewish. However, somehow Prof Abramson is convinced he was probably not Jewish?
He wrote to his sons in Hebrew too right? His Italian sucked. His Castilian perfect. His real name Salvador Fernandes Zarco? The conquistadores names were Jewish surnames. & his financiers were Sephardic Jews too cause Queen Isabel & Ferdinand were broke w/wars and exploration and needed money.. only people w/money were wealthy Sephardics. What is the prof missing here? I'm not even a prof or expert and this seems blatant.
As a Jew with the name Christopher I can tell you that a lot of religious Jews really don't like that some Jews have this name.
Lots of non-Jews in the USA/Canada/anyplace with lots of Jews have Jrewish friends,have Jewish backers and tell Jewish jokes. I'm not convinced that they are all Jews. Which Jewish jokes did Columbus tell?
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Just curious, how'd you come by the name? I've met exactly one Jewish "Christopher". His mother was Jewish (so by Orthodox Jewish law he was Jewish), his father was Irish-American and he was named after his non-Jewish father. He was actually baptized Roman Catholic at birth, so you could argue he was also Catholic by Catholic law. But he married a Jewish girl, like his mom, and he now identifies as Jewish, which, by Jewish religious law, he is, even with the unlikely name of Chris Reilly Jr.
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LOL, I thought they were a football team, not a band!
Thank you so much for another fascinating and educative talk on Columbus and the Sephardim! Looking forward to many more of your great lectures.
Salvador Fernandes Zarco, that’s what his real name was, born in the Village of Cuba, Kingdom of Portugal, the unmarried son of Prince Fernando Duke of Beja (third son of King Duarte) and Isabel Gonçalves Zarco (daughter of João Gonçalves Zarco, one of the 3 navigators who discovered the Madeira Islands, who is supposedly of Jewish ancestry). Notice that the island Salvador landed at in the Americas he named, Cuba.
Thank you. Yes Christopher Columbus was his ritualistic name, since he belonged to the Ordem do Infante
Christopher meaning Christ, Columbus meaning bird, dove (peace)
There's a statue of him in cuba Portugal
@@gtheskater Not "Columbus", Colón or Colom (he only signed that way, and in his son's biography of him, he wrote that the latinised form should be "Colonus").
@@NAU-invideoveritas thats only when he wrote in Spanish to the spanish king
@@gtheskater where have you seen him signing "Colombus""? I'd love to see that.
@@NAU-invideoveritas well that's a good question, I will investigate that
At around 32 mins the visual started becoming choppy and weird.
The overriding question is: why did Colon go to such lengths to disguise his true identity? Even his sons did not know who he really was.
Wow, excellent research!!!
Btw, the first bishop of Hispañola was a converso - Bartolomé Las Casas.
I was born in a small town in central Mexico, called Cerritos San Luis Potosí. My grandmother told me that her maternal uncles were tall men with red hair and blue eyes. All my life I wondered where this people came from. Their last name was Guzmán and Turrubiartes. Not only them, but there were Cervantes and so many other last names. After many years of research, I came to the conclusion that this were Shepherds Crypo Jews that had fled the brutal Catholic persecution. I got back as far to a man named Don Martin De Turrubiartes, who lived in Cerrritos in the late XVI century. There’s no doubt in my mind that Cristobal Colon was a Jew. The Shepherds fled to the ends of the earth to escape de brutality of religions, including their own sometimes. If Colon was investigated in the now, he would be called a liar and imposter for declaring his Jewish blood, particularly the Hasidic Jewish people. I gave up on being religious.
the video did a stop/start/stop/start motion because of that last joke!! he forgot to say BH to get going again!!!
The oldest temple is in Newport R.I. One of the 13 colonies of America! Shows Jews were one of the first to come here!
Thanks!
Thank you for supporting the research!
i though the exposition was too cursory, there's so much more depth to this delicate matter -- for example, the fact that he pitched his atlantic expedition to both the portuguese and (later) spanish crowns and had jewish investors to back him in both cases. that he was fluent in portuguese (a surprising fact given he was supposedly genoan), that he married felipa, the daughter of the governor of the madeira island, bartolomeu perestrello, of a more than likely converso family, that his writings are impregnated with old testament (not new) citations, that he starts his journal stating that he set sail one day after the "day of the expulsion of the jews", etc.
i suggest you take a look at this book: O Português Cristóvão Colombo - Agente Secreto do Rei Dom João II (in portuguese)
dan .fore the records i was an israeli seaman on board of '''chalom'' in the 60 i meet a family of anusim praying in a secret synagogue... there , they claim that over 80 porcent of madeira are anoussim en marriage only bitween them so when i pray with in the synagogue irealise they are thrue jewich lyke me whit exactly the same traditions'
If Columbus wasn't Jewish, it certainly seems like he wanted to be one. I live in Ann Arbor, MI. and after listening to Dr. A. making so many references to food in this piece, I have resolved that I must go have some Chinese for dinner. Thank you once again Dr. Abramson for the wonderful enlightenment and influence you share with us like no other. From one Canadian ex-pat to another. :)
He is Jewish DNA doesn't lie
"He had an aqualine nose and light-colored eyes; his complexion too was light and tending to bright red. In his youth his hair was blonde" From "The Life of the Admiral" written by his son Ferdinand
Great that comments are on for this one. Why were the comments turned off for the (sadly very short) polish origins video? Did some jerks ruin it for the rest of us? Great to see the comments here - this is a cool question. I think Columbus was a "converso." That 1492 timing was pretty key and besides, his name being "Christofero" - literally "christ bearer" takes on a new meaning if the confessions of PUBLIC conversion was felt to him as a kind of burden.
Little too much nastiness in the comments on the origin of Polish Jewry
The history does not show or claim that the Spanish and Portuguese had anything to do with the founding of New Netherlands and it does not mention the Spanish and Portuguese as bringing over Africans immediately to anywhere outside of their respective empires at all if the is accurate it would reflect and mention that and include documented proof that could be taught in history class so it could be known if it is true for purposes of historical accuracy because the Spanish and Portuguese did not found Rhode Island or New Netherland and the places that were part of the Spanish empire were Florida, what became Mexico which included the American Southwest and most of the West and Central America into most of South America along with a lot of the Caribbean. The only colony of Portugal was Brazil.
The top left squiggle/signature on the letter/ document indicated Christopher Columbus saying, Close to my Heart.
The Video seems to become shaky at approx. 28:23
Simon Weisenthal wrote "Sails of Hope" which addresses the question. If I correctly remember his answer was a medium-soft "no".
Agreed. Maybe harder than "medium-soft."
@@HenryAbramsonPhD I thought that he really believed that Columbus was a Jew. I'll have to go back and read the book again.
I would like to explore my Jewishness, my ancestry. Recently, I have my DNA results, it shows that I am 4% Sephardic Jew, while the rest of my ancestors are mainly from the Iberian Peninsula (39%), Canary Islands, and in less proportion Italy, Greece, Ireland and England. Your lectures awaken my curiosity. I have been attending a Jewish Temple in my area, and my devotion for this religion is growing even though I have not converted as of yet.
Jewish is not a religion look it up on the internet
@@soniag4516 It certainly IS a religion. From this and your previous comment, Sonia...you don't seem to like Jews, do you? A bit anti-Semitic, are you?
@@soniag4516 Yes it is! And a national affiliation and I’m not taking about the modern state. Without Judaism, there are no Jews
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4% er
Have you ever done a review of FDR's sephardic history. Delano is a spanish jewish name.
No, not yet.
Josephus says that some Indians called the Judahites Calani.
It's close to Colon.
Which Josephus?
It seems that the camera is moving around so that no one could really watch the video well.
Columbus did not signed his name as Christophorus Columbus (Italian) or Cristóbal Colón (Spanish) but as Cristoforo colon in Portuguese, also everything points that Columbus was a Jewish but there's no definite proof of it
Hope you enjoyed the video
@@HenryAbramsonPhD yes i did, i think the Jewish community could benefit if you went to Portugal and see what historically texts say about Columbus
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Perhaps, Prof Abramson, as a historian at this distance in time, you don't feel the the evidence is conclusive...however, it was a dangerous time for Jews and conversos and I would say that not many people would hang around with a crowd that was in severe disfavor unless they were connected in some way....and that cryptic message/signature clinched it for me. Have you ever read THE JEWISH PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and what are your thoughts on it? Would love a lecture on this, as it conects to the Columbus question. ...
I read it , and yes, the writer came to the conclusion he was Jewish. I think the evidence is clear that he had Jewish blood and had sympathy for their plight. The book puts out a supposition that his desire to find a new world was to establish a "homeland" for fleeing Jews and conversos. That would, in my mind, intimate a clear connection. How many Christians in those days would care about the fate of Jews, enough to search for a new homeland?. Only another Jew, IMHO.
Hard to believe he wanted to be seen as a jew back at the time of horrendous prosecution of jews and Judaism. He's mom said to be from the Jewish descent (according to the latest research) and it's probably true. That actually makes him a fully kosher Jew.
Columbus was from Portugal; and in his letters he refers Portugal has his beloved home furthermore why would a Spanish, Italian or polish person give Portuguese names to all the land he found without ever being in Portugal or be a Portuguese citizen himself
Thanks for contributing
What can I do to apply to your classes as a student? I am a senior at my current school in FL but I live in Washington state moving soon to the East coast again and looking for a graduate degree in Jewish studies or related. Any suggestion will be welcome.
the practice of gentiles against Jews leaves me disgusted
Colon is also a Jewish name. A great deal of Jews that went to Argentina have the Colon name.
No... No.... No. No
..no......
28:22 whoa what kind of glitch is this? Interesting study by the way.
I read that Moses Montefiore, changed his original family last name from Sephardic Spain: Carvajal, when moved to Italy.
19:30 - Text direction objection is easy to overcome here - the rest of the letter is Roman alphabet, a converso WOULD "left justify" a Hebrew acronym. He is making it fit with the rest of the text. If i was putting roman numeral page numbers or titles or chapter headings in a Hebrew text, (would I could currently write such a thing) I would probably right-justify them. It makes total sense.
Hmm
I stumbled upon a few of your lectures, Dr. Abramson, and can’t quit watching them and enjoying them fully.
Thank you for sharing in such a classroom-like form your research in History.
About this lecture, all I can say, based in my basic biographic knowledge of Columbus life is that he is supposed to be from a fishermen’s family of Genoa, the Italian name was Colombo, Cristoforo, and the remains of his house with a plaque, are just outside the old wall of Genoa. Colombo, according to some historians, comes from colonizing or being a colono in a certain area (Genoa?) but as he moved around then to España, modified his name to Cristobal Colon.
Thank you again, Dr. Abramson.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@HenryAbramsonPhD I am hooked with your Lectures, Dr. Abramson. Thank you.
Rava from the talmud is your guide?
The opening joke is an old Morey Amsterdam classic! His versiono of the final line is "Yeh, but don't the suit fit nice?!"
Well told
Why did Familysearch sent me an email saying I have a Dutch Ancestor Christopher Columbus?
YaherKoach Dr Henry, best regards from Down Under, Melbourne Australia.
I believe this story is accurate, please tell me if it isn't all comments welcome.
Columbus and his crew on his voyages brought back beautiful "talking parrots" birds which delighted the then courts of Spain and eventually all the courts of Europe.
These talking (squawking) aesthetically pleasing birds were a novelty , the Royal Court had never seen or heard anything like it.
Interestingly in Hasidism these 'Talking birds" are used as an analogy for performing Mitzvot Torah Commandments that are exceptional!
is this true?
I just tuned in but I wanted to add that Christopher Columbus real name was Cristo-bal Colon (edit: I don't know why the fact that his real name being Cristo-bal, but that definitely could be a Jewish name, Baal being the word for lord and a pagan idol in the Old Testament as well as the suffix to many Israelite names, alternate Bosheth) and he was Venetian, which many believe to have been settled by Phoenicians, which makes sense. Syria and Lebanon are where Phoenicia was, Canaanites in the Semitic tongue, for some reason call their money Lira, like in Italy.
So he was not Jewish but if you read the Bible even Jacob married the daughter of Leban-(on) and the Israelites frequently married Canaanites. Under Solomon (as) they were allied with the Kingdom of Phoenicia, King Hiram of Tyre his friend and if you look into it you will find that Solomon and Hiram sent out people to colonize other territories, the Phoenicians were expert sailors, which explains why Venice is a city of canals quite well.
Cristo-Baal Colon aka Columbus was a scumbag, and the source for the word Colony.
The xian tour guides we had in Spain for three weeks all agreed that the story of Columbus hurting the natives in the New World were ALL LIES to defame him. They ALL claimed that there is iron clad proof that this was NOT the case.
@@savtamarlene You are naive to simply believe what some people told you about some guy who lived in the 1400's.
There is no proof. There is what was written by people who knew him while he was alive and if that's true, that's the end of it. Do you believe historians can see into the past?
They have to read books if you want to learn about Columbus, that's where you need to start. Spanish literature from the 1400's about Columbus. And you can't even be sure about what they wrote.
@@savtamarlene With the well known activities of the Spanish and the Catholic Church in the time of Columbus, it seems unlikely that Columbus was any kind of decent human being. He was an employee of the Spanish crown in a land with no laws that applied to Europeans. He could basically do whatever he wanted and nobody would know.
I am sure he probably did plenty of terrible things.
the astrolabe and quadrant where made of coper or bronze from the beginning, it was never improved by anyone by using different materials
Check sources pls
@Henry Abramson astrolabe and quadrant couldn't be made in wood cause it would not last and go against the traditional built of all maratine tools which were made either in coper or bronze, I can't actually stated there was no development attempts but I can confidently say this development in used materials never happened in Portugal, on average the more known or powerful the captain were the more precious were the tools, some even made of gold and precious jules
@@rjvtechnologieshence the upgrade from wood. By your reasoning, the ships themselves, subject to rot, were also never made of wood
Columbustein!
E Se wasn’t trying to be edgy. In fact I think it’s a pretty mild joke...
Columbuski
Lmao
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I get that it was just a joke, and probably you meant no harm, but if you took away anything from the lecture, you might have learned something about the history of the Jews of Spain and Portugal. (Sephardic Jews.) They wouldn't have had Ashkenazic-style German-derived surnames ending in "stein". (At any rate at that point in history, the Ashkenazic Jews, who lived in the German lands, didn't generally use surnames.) Just sayin'...
Stupidity is a democratic right too.
12:00 - Poland or sicily, interesting. If that portrait can be trusted, (IF!) he sure looks more polish than Sicilian. I feel confident that he could easily have had a mixed background from either place.
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Can you help me find out more about my Jewish ancestry?
How can you tell a Jew? I learn more by watching beyond the 15-20 minute marker. Call me a jerk but I can be a bit too esoteric at times too. Thank you for your lectures. I feel like I'm learning another language.
I recently saw a documentary on this subject and they tried to dna match some of Columbus’ relatives, but either couldn’t get a good dna sample or could not get access to the remains. Therefore, the issue remains ambiguous…🙏
❤”Look how good his suit looks” . … watching this in 2024 … Thank you Christopher and Ann Marie for supporting us in St. Thomas, USVI for Irmala and Maria in 2017.
I agree with you that Columbus had a different origin story than what we're commonly told, and I do agree with you that he went out of his way to conceal his true identity, but I do not agree with you that he was a jew. There just isn't enough evidence to support that claim.
Not once in his writings did he ever mention that his entire motive for finding the new world was to find a new home for the prosecuted jews. Even if he did go out of his way to hide his jewish identity, how did he obtain funding from the king and queen? The common jewish argument that "he was funded by two rich jews" does not make any sense. So then how was the spanish crown able to claim the new discovered lands as their own if it was solely funded by a few rich individuals?
So if he was in fact able to obtain funding from the king and queen, then they would have surely figured out that he was a jew....seeing as it would have been virtually impossible to gain an audience with European royal dynasty at the time without them fully knowing what families they were doing business with. I feel as if people who support this argument cling onto the fact that he must have been jewish just because the year he sailed was the same as the year that jews were ordered to start packing up and leaving Spain. This disregards the fact that Columbus for years prior was trying to obtain funding from various royal families including the Portuguese and french.
Also, Columbus was able to marry a catholic portuguese woman from a noble family. If he was jewish, why would he have done this? And how would her family have let this happen? You must not forget that the 1400s was a vastly different time which did not allow for such unities. And also, if he was jewish, and his primary goal was to "find a new land for the jews" then how come it never came to fruition? Why did he return to spain and return back to the new world for a second and third voyage and essentially not fulfill this plan of "populating the new world with the jewish people"? Perhaps I am wrong, but it just does not add up in the context of the late 15th century.
The theory that is the most plausible is the Galician theory, which states that Columbus was actually the man known as Pedro Alvarez de Soutomaior, also known as Pedro Madruga, a Galician noblemen, born into a wealthy family of sailors who had strong ties to the spanish crown. Later in his life, Pedro Madruga gained enemies amongst the spanish monarchs and had to flee to portugal during the irmandao revolution in Galicia (might be mispelling that), where he gained his connections to the portuguese navy. When it came time to obtain funding by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand (which he did in fact), both the King and Queen knew of his reputation, and only agreed to fund his voyages if he changed his identity....so he took his mother's maiden name, Colon, and one of his middle names, Cristobal.
Many people also claim that his infamously mysterious signature had jewish meaning behind it. But this, once again, is weak evidence. The Galician theory explains it far better. It has already been decoded by Galician historians as simply representing the Soutomaior family tree, each letter representing a portion of the names of his father, grandfather, and great grandfather, simply paying homage to his true family roots knowing that his identity had to be switched.
The evidence is compelling and I suggest any one reading this to do their research.... over 80 calligraphic experts have confirmed that both Pedro Madruga and Columbus' writings are of the same individual. Another compelling piece of evidence is that he named over 100 of the first locations he discovered in the new world after several locations along the Rias Baixas, in Pontevedra, Galicia.
Also, there is EMPIRICAL evidence which states that both Colombus and Madruga had children who beared the same names, had wives who beared the same names, were both in Madeira at the same time, and were both in the Spanish courts at the same time.
There is FAR MORE evidence which supports the Galician theory. Unfortunately, it just seems to me to be a common case of groups of people trying to claim Columbus as their own, while cherrypicking the very little amount of proof that there is that he was actually jewish, or Catalan, or Polish, or Portuguese, or Italian.
The Spanish Portuguese “Shearith Israel” in NYC is quite a beautiful place to visit and soak up some of the culture
He was a Jew but that is not his portrait.
Note from the future - DNA testing says HE WAS a Sephardic Jew. The history always added up - his Italian Mistress was from a family of Fabric Dyers - almost solely run by Jews in The Mediterranean. Although he lived in Genoa he may have been Spanish but Genoa was an international port. Jews from every country lived in every port of the Mediterranean as merchants and ship owners/captains and spoke 'Ladino' - so it never meant he was 'Italian' necessarily. They often migrated from port to port all the way to Turkey. Genoa was an independent City State at the time. His wife was Portuguese Nobility (and also maybe Jewish) so he spoke Portuguese mainly.
According to historical records, his wife Filipa Moniz, was a portuguese noble person, how do you say she is 'Italian'? Besides, there isn't any document, that I know of, that can prove he lived in Genoa.
'Ladino' is a more recent concept. Normally, Sephardic Jews spoke the languages of the countries they were living in (not all had a good command of Hebrew).
@@Krka1716 Yes -I got confused - it was his mistress and that family was in Genoa, it's been documented. Yes, his proper wife was Portuguese Nobility but there was speculation that even that family were Jewish and had gained status through wealth as many Jews did.. She had holdings on Madeira - where he left from to the New World and where many Jews had holdings. Ladino was formed in Spain and spread all through the Mediterranean after the expulsion.
Any evidence that Alexander Hamilton was Jewish?
Not for this video, but in short, yes.
His mother converted so she and her children are 100 percent Jewish
I don't buy that Columbus thought he was reaching Asia. I've read he studied (I think his name was) Eratosthenes who determined the circumference of the Earth within a couple hundred miles before the common era. I also believe the Phoenicians supplied the tin for the Bronze Age from the new world and closely guarded their trade secrets for millennia. I also read recently that the first European contact with tobacco was one Jew, the translator, and one Gentile whom Columbus sent ashore to explore.
He was a poor sailor and didn’t know where he was going. He says as much in his diary.
No way would someone claim to be Jewish during inquisition years. Nope.
TH-cam "Dell Sanchez Christopher Colombus Was a Sephardic Jew"
Your lectures are the best! I've even got my daughter addicted!
Check out Christopher's journals that were sent to Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian and his communications with Amerigo Vespuci. They tell an even more fascinating story!!
Not likely to be jew, but not 100% clear, most probably Columbus was a great Portuguese, and he and portuguese king did their job so nicely done, that until today no one knows the truth about his identity, because he served his King so well until death. His job was to send Spanish interests to everywhere but India. Well done Colon, Portugal will remember you forever!
He was a Italian Jew from Genoa - His house is still there
As I am deaf since birth then I am Jewish in my Italian ancestry in my lineage; I am greatly disappointed that "Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?" isn't captioning for the deaf in TH-cam in my concern. Christa D"Auria
Of course Christopher Columbus was Jewish . 🤔 My mother had an uncle named Cristoval, he was also called Tio Tova, uncle Tova. Hispanics tend to shorten names, in the case of my mother's uncle Cristoval was shorten to Tova. Now everyone knows that the Hebrew letter Bet is also Vet. So let us look at Christopher Columbus's name in Castilian/Spain. Cris-tova-l , so right there in his name is the Hebrew word tova which means good. Another example of this type of crypto naming is the name Nestor. It's a common name in both my parents Family. Break the name Nestor in half you can see that it's Nest-or. In Hebrew the word for mericle is Nes, and for light is Or. So my point is that the Anusim were very creative when it came to names. So yes, Christopher Columbus was Jewish.
The jokes are classic, I'm a Newfie so I loves a joke.
The history is world class.
"Κολόμβος" is a last name found in the island of Chios in Greece. Certain aristocratic families in the Byzantine empire had that name.
you should have CC.
What type of Jew are we talking? Like revelation 3.9 type of Jew or an actual follower of Torah(not Talmud) type of Jew?
A Portuguese Jew more specifically
He was Jewish
Colon typical Italian name?
Hmm
You did a great job giving enough tidbits of why Columbus/Colon might well be Jewish that you had me convinced. Therefore, why are you so convinced otherwise? By the way the jokes are great! Bruce Markowitz(from Efrat, Israel)
Crypto-Judaism and Crypto Catholicism .
microphone too close to mouth.
Yup
Until we find other documents nobody knows... But he did marry a very catholic Portuguese woman of very influencial and well connected family portuguese family. They would probably demand proof he was catholic as well in those times.
Exactly. This makes the jewish theory unlikely.
I don't remember who I heard the joke from, Myron Cohen or buddy Hackett, but it was funny when they told it! :>D
It seems to me that Dr. Abramson is acting emotionally and probably de did not prepare for his lecture. He talked 1/3 of his time abt Columbus and 2/3 abt the inquisition and its effect on the Jews.
Thank you Dr Abramson. Find your lectures very interesting. It's been rumoured in my family that I am descended from Sephardic Jews, though I was born and brought up a gentile and a Christian. Will get the DNA test done but it's interesting, if I am pure gentile, that I am drawn to Israel and Jewish people and history.
But Christians were mostly Jews who believed Christ
@@salemhefeida8012 Not true. A myth. Most who eventually followed were idol worshippers. MOST WERE NOT JEWS. Tune in to Rabbi Tovia Singer...his erudition will open your eyes to the truth!
Why do they try to hide their evilness
Why are you being an idiot?
Very interesting, a pity the problem of the video flicking
Curious, my guess would be yes he was, but I am a long way from certain. On the other hand there is (or appears to be) a Jewish influence in his early years in ships that may have influenced him. Then again my view is as an outsider looking in and yours is that of the insider looking out. We agree on not proven, shall we leave it at that.
please talk about the Loria/Luria/Lurie family
He spoke only Portuguese and Spanish, never Hebrew.
Uh... no.. he wrote his own sons in Hebrew right? Also, his Italian was HORRID. But his Castilian perfect. The conquistadores were Jewish surnames. And his real name was #SalvadorFernandesZarco? He seems WAY more Sephardic.
Hermione Delano you do not need to speak Hebrew to be Jewish though
My father told that suit joke many years ago. Isn't it great . . .
I loved that joke too. Thx for sharing it. I also wanted to find out from you Mr. Abramson if you have any information about the Zarah tribe migration to Spain? I’m of the opinion that Zarah members settled in Spain. Plz if you can give me any data would greatly appreciate it.
Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo; c. 1451 - 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.
Born in the Republic of Genoa, under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.
Those voyages and his efforts to establish settlements on the island of Hispaniola initiated the permanent European colonization of the New World.
At a time when European kingdoms were beginning to establish new trade routes and colonies, motivated by imperialism and economic competition, Columbus proposed to reach the East Indies (South and Southeast Asia) by sailing westward.
This eventually received the support of the Spanish Crown, which saw a chance to enter the spice trade with Asia through this new route.
During his first voyage in 1492, he reached the New World instead of arriving in Japan as he had intended, landing on an island in the Bahamas archipelago that he named San Salvador.
Over the course of three more voyages, he visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming all of it for the Crown of Castile.
Though preceded by the short-lived Norse colonization of North America (led by Leif Erikson) in the 11th century, Columbus is the European explorer credited with establishing and documenting routes to the Americas, securing lasting European ties to the Americas, and inaugurating a period of exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for centuries.
His exertions thereby strongly contributed to the development of the modern Western world.
He also founded the transatlantic slave trade, and has been accused by several historians of initiating the genocide of the Hispaniola natives.
Columbus himself saw his accomplishments primarily in the light of spreading the Christian religion.
Columbus had set course in hopes of finding a western route to the Indies (Asia).
He called the inhabitants of the lands that he visited indios (Spanish for "Indians").
His strained relationship with the Spanish Crown (and its appointed colonial administrators in America) led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits that he and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the Crown.
Here I am after three years of your teaching. I just finish a Spanish lecture of the Columbus Jewish identity. You mentioned a lot of good points that only Jewish people will do.
Why would he not leave on the 9th? Only a Jew will know the significance and that’s why he waited.
Why did he made a point to say the significance of the day he was leaving, referring to the expulsion of the Jews?
Colon left his will to one of his son’s, in his will he told him to give 10% to charity. Who gives 10% to charity? Only Jews.
I am a Filipino
I am a Lost tribe of Israel
Called Ophir (Philippines)
@dandy......I am American indian.....I am a lost tribe of Israel.
You were right.
The large part of the confusion is that Christopher Columbus was descended from Khazars that we largely know today as Israelis or ashlenazi Jews which are not actually of Semitic origin but descend from Japheth which is why it’s confusing when he says that Columbus is not a Jew it’s because he doesn’t view the ashkenazis as the true Jews but it is an interesting point to note that Columbus also came from this people because this people had perpertrated the most corruption upon the earth yet always seem to stay hidden in the backgrounds and are never viewed as perpetrators or instigators but are always at the middle of every conflict or overseeing and funding both sides. It’s also an interesting point when we look at the fact that the majority of the slave ships and plantations when we check the documentation the owners was Jewish but we only here about white people enslaving blacks you never ever hear about the Jewish people and there hand in slavery
cantblockthetruth absolute nonsense. All of these things that you listed are tired tropes and have been overwhelmingly disproven and yet you and others like you still cling to them to keep your narrative going . Isn’t there enough anti-Semitic friendly TH-cam channels to post on . Why waste your time and brain power watching this video, that is if you even watched it .
Bull... A big heap of it.
My neighbors don't like me because they know I'm Jewish
Azar Rothschild I don't like you because you are not a yid
Yeah no wonder lol
I like you, so smile!