crypto-Jew
Americannoun
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That book is an idiosyncratic account of the explorer’s life by Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish historian, who insisted that Columbus was a Catalan crypto-Jew whose family had migrated to Genoa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
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