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crypto-Jew
[ krip-toh-joo ]
noun
- a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
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In 2007, one of Turkey’s best-selling books was nonsense titled “Moses’ Children,†which declared Erdogan to be a “crypto-Jew†colluding with the Elders of Zion.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon, who co-wrote the 2004 film Spider-Man 2, voiced a similar sentiment, calling the web-slinger a “crypto-Jew†in a 2004 interview with Newsweek.
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Wiesenthal brings a detective's breathless prose to his various hypotheses, but his message�that Columbus was a crypto-Jew or, more likely, a descendant of converted Jews�is anything but new.
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