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We decided to revisit the episode we submitted for their consideration.
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That same year, Jews who didn’t convert to Catholicism were expelled from Spain. Those two events are more connected than you think, and together they explain why the first Jewish community in the Americas ended up exactly where it did. It wasn’t New York.
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