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By Giacomo Selloni
You may be aware of the fact that Christopher Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. Do you also know that he was not Italian? He couldn't read, write or even speak the language. He was either a "Converso" - a Jew who converted to Christianity to avoid Ferdinand and Isabella's Inquisition, or hid his Judaism. He spoke Spanish among other languages including Greek, Latin and, most telling, Ladino - the Spanish equivalent of Yiddish. Letters to his son were written in this language, and the pages contained coded Jewish references. He also knew the world was spherical, his first voyage had calm seas, not dangerous ones and the crew weren't mutineers. [See: Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen, The New Press 2nd Edition ©2007 and https://www.aish.com/jw/s/Christopher-Columbus-Secret-Jew.html]
You may be asking "what does this have to do with a review of a film documentary?" The reason is most historians are lazy and habitual plagiarists.
By Giacomo Selloni
You may be aware of the fact that Christopher Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. Do you also know that he was not Italian? He couldn't read, write or even speak the language. He was either a "Converso" - a Jew who converted to Christianity to avoid Ferdinand and Isabella's Inquisition, or hid his Judaism. He spoke Spanish among other languages including Greek, Latin and, most telling, Ladino - the Spanish equivalent of Yiddish. Letters to his son were written in this language, and the pages contained coded Jewish references. He also knew the world was spherical, his first voyage had calm seas, not dangerous ones and the crew weren't mutineers. [See: Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen, The New Press 2nd Edition ©2007 and https://www.aish.com/jw/s/Christopher-Columbus-Secret-Jew.html]
You may be asking "what does this have to do with a review of a film documentary?" The reason is most historians are lazy and habitual plagiarists.
- 3/19/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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