From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Columbus - off topic
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 18:01:39 -0500
As I understand, he was a Marrano (secretly a Jew, to escape death)
shoshanna
Some may find it interesting to note, as I understand it, that some
believe that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew, who undertook the trip partly
to escape persecution.