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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
A SPOT OF IDENTITY
by S Levin. M.D.
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Who would have thought that an obscure German anthropologist called Baelz, living in Tokyo 100 years ago, could have disturbed ashes and the memories of 500 years and unsettled the placid thoughts of a Portuguese family from Maputo living in Johannesburg today? Well, he did, in a very round about way, and it is an interesting story.
In 1885 Baelz published a paper in a German anthropological journal calling attention to a hitherto unrecorded feature among Japanese babies. Very often infants are born with a dark blue stain, a birthmark, low down on the back or legs which gradually fades and disappears over the course of about a year.He called the stain "Mongolische Flecken"-- Mongolian Spots. During the early years of the 20th century these stains were described in many other peoples, from Negroes to North American Indians. It is also common in Asia: among Iranians, Turks, Arabs and Sephardi Jews --and also Spain and Portugal, where Sephardi Jews had been compelled by the Church to give up their identity and become Roman Catholics. Accordingly, from the 16th century, there have been few or no Jews in Spain and Portugal, but their genes, their hereditary characteristics, have continued to be transmitted, so that the Mongolian/Semitic Spot or Stain is found, fairly often in the babies of Portuguese and to a lesser degree in the Spanish. These often feature family names like da Silva, Pereira, Carvalho, Gomes, da Costa, Mendes, Barbosa, da Sousa, Hendriques and Pinto.
I have met a young Portuguese doctor, devoutly Catholic, whose two daughters, he told me, had the characteristic 'birthmarks', and he knew that he was of Jewish origin. I know of an elderly Portuguese lady who, on becoming a grandmother, asked if the newborn infant had the 'family mark'. In August 1982 I happened to meet a young Portuguese couple called Pereira. They had been born in Maputo (Mocambique) but lived in Johannesburg, South Africa and spoke a good English. Their infant daughter's name was Raquel and I noticed that she had a well marked Semitic stain on her back. I explained the significance of this feature and they looked blank. They had never heard of 'secret' Jews or 'Marrano' . I met them again a few times until March 1983 when they left for Portugal. A year later, they were back in Johannesburg and in April 1984 Mrs Pereira and Raquel, not yet 2 years old, came to pay me a visit. "Mrs Pereira," I exclaimed "why are you wearing a Magen David (star of David) on your necklace? And Raquel, why is a Magen David dangling from her bracelet?" She then told me the story. All sorts of strange things had happened to them while in Portugal, things she would have ignored had I not alerted her about Raquel's mark and about the fact that Raquel was a Hebrew name, Rachel. Her husbands family came from Porto. That she knew, and indeed part of her family also derived from that area. There was a tradition among their families that they did not go to Church often, and her husband's grandmother used to light candles on a Friday night, for reasons nobody could fathom. While in Lisbon, Mrs Pereira became ill with abdominal trouble and Dr de Oliveira who examined her said: "The trouble is that bad meat is poisoning your system. Pork is forbidden. Blood is forbidden, so before you prepare meat you must first soak it overnight in water and then salt it to get all the traces of blood out." She did as he advised, and recovered. "I then remembered," she told me, "that Jews in Johannesburg do these things and I and my husband began to read and made to make inquiries. We discovered that President Salazar and General Spinola of Angola were of Jewish origin, and so are we!.....that's why we wear the Magen David."
I left it at that. I felt reasonably sure that the Pereira's wont take matters further: changing adult identity is too much of a wrench. They will remain Portuguese Catholics intriqued by and proud of their Jewish heritage; but I am willing to wager that Raquel will be sent to a Jewish nursery school.
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