Genetic research: almost 25% of Latinos and Hispanics have Jewish DNA. And where does the surname Salum come from? By: Josimar Salum

Genetic research: almost 25% of Latinos and Hispanics have Jewish DNA. And where does the surname Salum come from? By: Josimar Salum

What of the surnames Alves, Carneiro, Costa, Ferreira, Oliveira, Fonseca? The research was based on genetics and not surnames! Unprecedented genetic research made public by dozens of teachers around the world has provided evidence that almost a quarter of Latinos and Hispanics have significant Jewish DNA.

I knew it! But now there is scientific proof!

The state of Minas Gerais where I came from is full of Jewish presence and influence. Our friend Rabbi Marcelo Guimarães, founder of the Inquisition museum in Belo Horizonte, was the first person who informed me about the origins of our family, of Jewish descent.

My family surname "Alves" on my father's side and his "Ferreira" are also Jewish surnames.

And from my mother we have Lebanese descendants - Salum, which means Shalom, Shalem - are from a family that migrated to Lebanon from Jerusalem many, many years ago, according to my friend Miguel Nicolaevsky, a Brazilian Jew who lives in Israel. He is practically a rabbi and a scholar.

According to Miguel, the Salum family in Lebanon has Jewish roots.

 "Salem (Arabic: سالم, appropriately transliterated as sālim; it can also be a transliteration from Hebrew: שָׁלֵם Shalem; the Jewish and Arabic name is also transliterated as Salem) or it can also be translated as I said earlier Shalom, Shalum, Salum.

Salem is a surname of Arabic and Jewish origin, it is a Sephardic Jewish surname.

And also my mother and father, we have the surnames Carneiro and Costa.

Costa “is also a surname chosen by Jews and other religious groups due to Roman Catholic and other Christian conversions. In Italy, Portugal, Galicia and Catalonia, it is derived from the Latin word costa, "rib", which came to mean slope, coast, in the Romance languages.

Also, the name Oliveira, which some of our family members married, is of Jewish origin. At the time of King Diniz I, king of Portugal in 1281, Oliveira was already "an old, illustrious and honorable family", like the king's books the Inquisitions show. 'Oliveira' is classified in the Jewish-genealogical study as of proven Jewish origin.

Fonseca is another proven Sephardic surname.

The Jerusalem Post article also said: “The last official estimation of the number of people in Latin America, conducted by the United Nations in 2016, resulted in more than 650 million.

Add to that assessment the approximately 60 million Latinos and Hispanics in the US, as well as data from previous genetic research showing that about 20% of the current population of 60 million people in the Iberian Peninsula are of Jewish descent and the statistic becomes impressive.

Today, there are up to 200 million descendants from the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities worldwide.”

Consider 220 million Brazilians and imagine that 30% of Brazilians are descendants of the Sephardi!

At this point you must be asking who the Sephardi were.

What does it mean to be Sephardi?

Sephardi definition: a member of the Western branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal, and later in the Balkans, the Levant, England, the Netherlands and the Americas.

There are millions and millions of Jews around the world. God didn't joke when he promised Abraham that his offspring would be like the stars of the heavens and the sands of the desert!

“He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”  Abram believed the Lord , and he credited it to him as righteousness." Genesis 15:5‭-‬6

Published by the Jerusalem Post on March 1, 2019.
Link below.
 https://m.jpost.com/Magazine/Genetic-research-almost-25-percent-of-Latinos-Hispanics-have-Jewish-DNA-581959