Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-01-18
COLUMBUS AND THE HEBREWS.
Some Curious Condolences In Connection
With his Sailing and DiscoYerY

Some Curious Condolences In Connection
With his Sailing and Discovery.
Discoveries anent the voyage of
Christopher Columbus in 1892 seem to
be multiplying every day. All, per-
chance, may not be equally worthy of
acceptance, and yet some are remarka-
bly, borne out by history. Jewish
savants, among others, have diligently
searched into the circumstances bear
ing upon that first voyage of the Geno-
csc admiral and have brought to light
some very interesting particulars.
Among these are evidences that He
brews were among the sailors that
composed the crews of the three YES
sells under the direction of Columbus.
And that this circumstance is not re-
garded as unlikely is shown by the
difficulty that Columbus must have ex-
! perienced in persuading even seafaring
men to venture upon unknown paths
in the trackless expanse. 1t is regarded
as quite reasonable that few mem
bers of that stock which Spain exiled
| during the same period gladly chose to
sail on an unknown voyage rather than
submit to the perils attendant upon
That Louis de Torres, converse, or
converted Jew, was of the crew of Co
| lumbus, and that, by reason of his
knowledge as a inguist, he acted as in
! terpreter to the expedition and per-
formed other labors in the newly dis
covered continent, abundant testimony
has already established.
But more recent researches have
brought to light curious condolences in
| connection with the date of the sailing
of the fleet from Palos and the date of
| the first sighting of land at San Salvador
on this side of the Atlantic. DR. Moses
Kayserling, of Budapest, Austria H un-
| gary, a Jewish scholar of renown, whose
studies in the history and literature of
the ancient race have earned for him a
deservedly high rank, verifies the as
sumption of some writer's that the Sd of
August, 1892, and the 18th of October,
1892, correspond with special events in
| IsraeFs history, as do those same dates
| in 1892 correspond with Jewish ami
versaries- The argument is as follows:
The Fast of the Ninth Day of Alb
| marking the worst disasters in Israel's
history, the destruction of both HOLY
Temples at Jerusalem hundreds of
years after each other), and the disper-
sion of the Jewish nation-occurred in
1892, on Thursday, August 2. History
shows that the exile from Spain also
happened about the same period of 1892,
but the later evidences prove that it oc-
CURED on the same identical date and
day-immediately preceding the sailing
of Columbus three Ships
Tl-A l..
as of equal, if not of still more, impor-
lance, is the additional discovery that
the 18th of October, 1892, occurred
Wednesday,, and, as this year, on the
seventh day of the Jewish feast of tab
ernacles, ''the day of the great hosan-
nas," when the Hebrews. with praises
and hymns, joyfully thanked God for
| His divine protection. DIR. Kayserling
and others by means of their investiga-
tions have established it seems beyond
doubt the correctness of this double
correspondence of days and dates
These discoveries may, indeed, be re-
| garded as remarkable. Columbus sets
sail just at the period of Israers suffer
ing, to arrive at what was to be, through
| divine providence, the haven of rest for
the prosecuted and the true refuge for
the oppressed, just at the time when
the Jewish people throughout their dis
persion are declaring amid psalmody
and thanksgiving their love and de-
pendence upon Him whose word de-
termines the destinies of all nations as
of every individual.
| l*Columbus' diary starts out in these
words, quoted by DIR. Kayserling: SIN
the same month in which their males
ties issued the edict that all Jews should
be driven out of the kingdom and ter
ritories, in the same month they gave
me the order to undertake, with suf-
ficient men, my expedition of discovery
to the Indies. " l-Philadelphia Ledger.