Show t First Jews in America Came From Spain In 1492 Spain issued an fl edict eXpelling ex expelling eX- eX polling all Jews from the kingdom The cruelty with which this law was enforced the dreadful sufferIngs sufferings suffer suffer- ings which it brought upon about souls is a familiar stor story The point that Is chiefly Interesting interestIng Interest Interest- ing Irig at the present time is that this expulsion gave America its first Jews Burton J. J Hendrick writes In the Worlds World's Work The date is significant 1492 That was the same year rear that Columbus Columbus Columbus Colum Colum- bus sailed on his voyage Indeed his diary describes how ho as he passed out of or Palos on his way to the unknown western sea he spied a miserable caravel loaded with Jews Jews exiles exiles under the recent de de- de cree Certain modern Jewish historians historians his his- insist that Columbus was himself a Jew or at least a Marrano Marrano Marrano Mar- Mar rano converted to what is Indisputable Is that hi his hll expedition expedition ex ex- contained several Jews and that the very first firstman man nan to land on the western hemisphere was as a baptized baptized baptized bap bap- Jew Louis de Torres Tho Spanish Jews began begat to land landon on American soil long before the Declaration of or Independence At first the their ther r welcome was not especially espe espe- daily cordial I In 1654 5 a ship containing con con- ft tamIng twenty seven ty v reached cac J New Pe Amsterdam but Peter Stuyvesant the Dutch governor or received them with exceedingly ill grace race and it was not until a year afterward that under peremptory orders from the West Vest Indian Indian company company in which several several sev sev- eral Influential Spanish Jews vere Were I stockholders he gave them permission perms perm's sion to reside permanently In the little Dut Dutch h settlement A French doctor says a woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man has more control of self sel than a man Also she has more control of ot a man Washington Washington Post |