On Columbus Day, remember Abraham Zacuto, the Jewish astronomer history forgot
פורוורד+2(JTA) — Every October, Christopher Columbus returns not only as history but as controversy. The voyages associated with his name transformed the world, but their legacy is inseparable from conquest, coercion and the destruction that…
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- The life of Abraham Zacuto joins two strands of Sephardic history: persecution and exile, and the transmission of knowledge, texts and technologies across borders. — JTA
- In 1935, the International Astronomical Union formally adopted the name Zagut for a lunar crater honoring Abraham ben Shmuel Zacuto. — ג'רוזלם פוסט — דעות
