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Bookmark or Share- Who Are Sephardic Jews? - My Jewish LearningWherever Sephardic Jews traveled, they brought with them their unique ritual customs, language, arts, and architecture. Sephardic synagogues often retain the influence of Islam in their architecture by favoring geometric, calligraphic, and floral decorative motifs.
- Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews - The history of Ashkenazim and SephardimFerdinand and Isabella expelled practicing Jews from Spain, forcing those who remained to worship in secret. The Spanish exiles formed a Sephardic diaspora that stretched from London to Aleppo.
- Sephardi | Meaning, Customs, History, & Facts | BritannicaThe chief rabbinate of Israel has both a Sephardic and an Ashkenazi chief rabbi. The designation Sephardim is frequently used to signify North African Jews and others who, though having no ancestral ties to Spain, have been influenced by Sephardic traditions, but the term Mizrahim is perhaps more properly applied.
- Sephardic Jews - WikipediaSephardic Jews, [a] also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, [b] [1] and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, [2] are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). [2] The term, which is derived from the Hebrew Sepharad (lit.
- Who Are Sephardic Jews? | AishThe term, “Sephardic Jews,” technically refers to the descendants of the great Jewish community of Spain—infamously exiled in the late 15th century—except that like most things relating to the long, difficult history of diaspora Jewry, it isn’t that simple.
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