The history of Jews in the "Americas" began at the same time as the history of America -- with Columbus. Consider the history of the Jewish community in San Salvador.
Facts:
- Columbus brought a Hebrew/Aramaic translator along on his voyage in 1492 but not a priest.
- Many of the crew were "Converso's" (Jews forced to convert to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition).
- Columbus set sail in 1492, the year of the Spanish Inquisition ordering the brutal conversion and murder of all Jews in Spain.
- Colombus postponed his planned departure by one day so as not to set sail on the cursed Jewish day of Tish B'Av.
- Linguistic traits in his writings indicate that Columbus was raised learning Ladino, a hybrid form of Castilian Spanish, comparable to Yiddish, which was spoken by Spain’s Sephardic Jewish community.
- On all but one of Columbus’s letters to his son, Diego he ended with a traditional Hebrew blessing. He never did so to letters outside his family.
- Columbus’ voyage was not, as is commonly believed, funded by the deep pockets of Queen Isabella, but rather by two Jewish Conversos and another prominent Jew. Louis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez advanced an interest free loan of 17,000 ducats from their own pockets to help pay for the voyage, as did Don Isaac Abarbanel, rabbi and Jewish statesman.
- Columbus’s first announcement of his voyage’s discoveries went to the treasurer of Aragon, the former Jew, de Santangel.
In Spain in Columbus's time it was fatal to admit being a Jew, so it stands to reason that his true ethnic origin is murky. There is no physical historical evidence of Columbus’s roots. He may be the ultimate Marrano - A secret Jew.
By the same token, Columbus was on a mission to convert the people in the land he was destined for to Christianity. So you could say that America's Judeo Christian roots trace back to Columbus.
On second thought, perhaps that is another reason Godless Leftist Progressive Socialists are so determined to wipe Columbus from our true American history and replace him with Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project.
TRIVIA: The flag of Israel can trace it's roots back to a Colombus Day parade in Boston 1891.
If the subject of Columbus's Jewish roots interests you further.