In Portugal-where David Reubeni, heralded by a silken standard worked with the Ten Commandments, had been received by the King with an answering pageantry of banners and processions-a Marrano maiden had visions of Moses and the angels, undertook to lead her suffering kinsfolk to the Holy Land, and was burnt by the Inquisition.
"Dreamers of the Ghetto"
I. Zangwill
Portugal fell to a Marrano physician who had escaped from the Inquisition.
"Dreamers of the Ghetto"
I. Zangwill
I shall not dwell here on the well-known fact that Jews were associated with Columbus in his voyage of discovery, that Jews supported his enterprise financially and scientifically, and that a Marrano Jew is said to have been the first member of Columbus's crew to step on the soil of the New World.
"The Allied Countries and the Jews"
Hyman Gerson Enelow