crypto-Jew
Americannoun
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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.
From US News
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.
From Slate
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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