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Charles Gross was born of Hebrew parentage in Troy, New York, United States in February 1857, the son of Louis and Lottie (Wolf) Gross.
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Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries (1894)
(Meyer Kayserling (1829 – 1905) was a rabbi and historian,...)
Meyer Kayserling (1829 – 1905) was a rabbi and historian, who studied the history and literature of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. In 1894 a translation of Kayserling's book on Christopher Columbus and Spanish Jews was published--- "Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries" (translated by Charles Gross 1857-1909). The curious relationship which Columbus' discovery has with the Jews in Portugal and Spain, is the subject of this book. As Kayserling notes there is some evidence that Columbus himself was of Spanish-Jewish origins; Kayseling gives a full review of this evidence. The forced contributions of the Jews, historians have made note of before this, but Dr. Kayserling, who has carefully studied the records in Spain, produces much new evidence relating to individual Jews, who by their teachings or personal exertions were of singular help to Columbus. The work is distinguished for its impartiality. Kayserling writes: "FEW mortals have been honored by posterity as much as Christopher Columbus. The question whether the Jews assisted in these discoveries has already heretofore been propounded, but it has never before been carefully investigated. Entrusted with this honorable but difficult mission, I determined to visit Spain in order to complete my collection of material by exploring the Spanish archives and libraries. Such documents as I found there, I transcribed. They have been used with care in the text. I trust that I have succeeded in making a contribution to the history of the discovery of America and to the history of the Jews, to whom America has been a land of refuge, a land of freedom and of equality." Contents CHAPTER I. THE EARLIEST PARTICIPATION OF THE JEWS IN THE NAVAL AFFAIRS OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL—JEHUDA CRESQUES, OR JAIME RIBES—JoAo II. AND HIS ASTRONOMICAL JUNTA. CHAPTER II. COLUMBUS IN LISBON, AND HIS RELATIONS TO THE JEWS OF THAT CITY—His SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT — His NEGOTIATIONS WITH KING JOAO—JOSEPH VECINHO—THE PORTUGUESE EXPEDITION TO INDIA; ABRAHAM OF BEJA AND JOSEPH ZAPATEIRO—COLUMBUS IN SPAIN. CHAPTER III. COLUMBUS IN SPAIN—POLITICAL CONDITION OF ARAGON AND CASTILE—FERDINAND AND ISABELLA—ABRAHAM SENIOR— STATUS AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF JEWS AND MARRANOS —THE INQUISITION AND ITS VICTIMS. CHAPTER IV. COLUMBUS'S FIRST APPEARANCE AT THE SPANISH COURT—THE JUNTA OF CORDOVA AND THE CONFERENCE AT SALAMANCA —ABRAHAM ZACUTO—ISAAC ABRAVANEL. CHAPTER V. Columbus In Santa Fe—The Fall Of Granada—The Position OF THE SANTANGELS; THEIR PERSECUTION BY THE Inquisition—Luis De Santangel's Interposition In Favor Of Columbus—The Queen's Jewels, And Santangel's Loan For The Equipment Of The Expedition. CHAPTER VI. EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN—AGREEMENT OF SANTA Fé—EXODUS OF THE JEWS—COLUMBUS'S PREPARATIONS AND DEPARTURE—PARTICIPATION OF THE JEWS IN THE EXPEDITION—GUANAHANI—LUIS DE TORRES—INDIANS AND ISRAELITES. CHAPTER VII. COLUMBUS'S RETURN—His LETTERS TO SANTANGEL AND SANCHEZ—PREPARATIONS FOR THE SECOND EXPEDITION; THE MONEY OF THE JEWS UTILIZED—THE SECOND VOYAGE— PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES—VASCO DA GAMA AND ABRAHAM ZACUTO—GASPAR DA GAMA—FRANCISCO D'ALBUQUERQUE AND HUCEFE, OR ALEXANDER D'ATAYDE. CHAPTER VIII. COLUMBUS'S DOWNFALL—ROYAL FAVORS GRANTED TO LUIS DE SANTANGEL—DEATH OF SANTANGEL AND OF GABRIEL SANCHEZ; THEIR DESCENDANTS — EARLIEST SETTLEMENTS OF MARRANOS IN ESPANOLA AND IN THE PORTUGUESE COLONIES—THE INQUISITION AND ITS VICTIMS IN THE COLONIES.
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Charles Gross
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Charles Gross studied the early stages of municipal government as related to the associations of merchants and craftsmen. With no family traditions of scholarship, he early attracted the attention of his teachers by his scholarly ability and ambition.
At Williams College, where he was graduated in the class of 1878, he confirmed the impression of his rare fitness for the scholar’s life.
After a year of teaching at the Troy Academy he studied in Germany and France, taking the degree of Ph. D. at Gottingen in 1883.
Career
With characteristic decision and independence of character Charles Gross fixed almost immediately on the field of study to which he henceforth devoted himself with unwavering tenacity of purpose, the history of English legal and governmental institutions.
Since 1883 for five years Charles Gross worked by himself mostly in English libraries and archives.
His special interest soon became centered about the early stages of municipal government as related to the associations of merchants and craftsmen. For his doctoral dissertation he had chosen the subject: Gil da Mercatoria: Ein Beitrag sur Geschichte der Englischen Stadteverfassung, and this firstling of his talent, published in 1883, was later expanded into The Gild Merchant, ever since regarded as the standard work on the subject.
It at once attracted attention by the freshness and originality of its thought as well as by the thoroughness of the investigations upon which its novel conclusions were based.
At the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition at London in 1887 he gave a lecture on “The Exchequer of the Jews of England in the Middle Ages. ” Through the publication of these and other related studies Gross became known to American scholars, and though he was at the time personally unknown to any one at Harvard he was called thither in 1888 as instructor in history- The experiment justified itself at once.
He adjusted himself with unusual readiness to the varied requirements of American academic life, taking his share of elementary teaching and administrative work, but giving also advanced courses in the medieval institutions of England and France.
In his teaching he carried on the same principles of careful attention to every detail which marked his study and writing. In addition to other important administrative duties he served for nine years as chairman of the department of history and government.
Promoted to assistant professor in 1892, he was made professor in 1901 and the year before his death became the first incumbent of the Gurney Professorship of History and Political Science.
Faithful in the routine of the teacher, he never slackened in his tireless labor of research. His vacations were usually spent in visits to the collections of material for his publications, and twice he thus spent a “sabbatical year. ”
At an early period he began gathering items of bibliography and continued this work to the day of his death, the first result being the substantial volume : A Bibliography of British Municipal History (1897), published in the Harvard Historical Studies.
He took a keen interest in the conduct of this series and was for many years active in the preparation of the several volumes for the press. He was twice intrusted by the Selden Society with the editorship of important works: first, Select Cases from the Coroners’ Rolls, 1265-1413 (1896), and later, Select Cases concerning the Law Merchant, 1270-1638 (1908).
The work by which Gross will be chiefly remembered, however, is his monumental Sources and Literature of English History from the Earliest Times to about 1485. The first edition in 1900 at once took its place as an indispensable aid to every student of early English history.
Immediately after its publication he began collecting new titles, and from these materials a second revised and enlarged edition was prepared in 1915 by his devoted secretary, Addie Frances Rowe, under supervision of a committee of his colleagues.
The peculiar value of the volume comes from the fact that it is not only a list of titles as complete as human diligence could make it, but also a discriminating discussion of the more important sources in the light of the author’s unequaled control of the whole material.
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Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries (1894)
(Meyer Kayserling (1829 – 1905) was a rabbi and historian,...)
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Bibliographical Contributions, No. 43. A Classified List of Books Relating to British Municipal History
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Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries (1894)
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In his teaching Charles Gross carried on the same principles of careful attention to every detail which marked his study and writing. He accumulated learning only to share it with colleagues and students.
Personality
Gross’s personality was a rare combination of extreme reserve with an almost childlike dependence upon friendship.
Connections
Charles Gross was married in London, July 15, 1889, to Annie Smith. His domestic life, begun with every promise, was clouded almost throughout by the distressing illness of his wife, a sorrow which he bore without complaint and with unflinching loyalty.
References
- Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries. By Dr. M. Kayserling. Tr. from the Author's Manuscript With His Sanction and Revision by Charles Gross
- Skinny Repeal and other Amusing Tales by Charles Gross
- By Charles J. Gross American Military Aviation: The Indispensable Arm (Centennial of Flight Series) (Custom)
