And a surname without Sephardic roots does not necessarily imply that the family cannot have Sephardic ancestors; before the end of the 18th century, individual Sephardic Jews joining Ashkenazic ...

Other Sephardic Jews fled to South America. In 1654 a few reached Manhattan from Brazil and at once established the Spanish & Portuguese Synagog—North America’s first.

When Sephardic Jews arrived from the Ottoman Empire during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) — when Azaria’s grandparents fled their native Salonika (Thessaloniki, in today’s Greece) — U.S ...

When Sephardic Jews recite selichot, even though the content is serious and one can say it’s even somber, there is a joy to the way that we recite selichot.

Sephardic Jews are descendants of the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East. Until the 1400s, these areas were largely controlled by Muslims, who allowed Jews to move and live ...

LAWRENCE - Sephardic Jews in America are a minority of a minority, as they are vastly outnumbered by Jews of Eastern European, German, Russian and Polish descent known as Ashkenazi Jews.

Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews were scattered across the Ottoman Empire, which under Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century included Hungary and Romania, reaching the border with Austria and Poland.

Once persecuted, Sephardic Jews find Spanish embrace _ with new law offering citizenship. Associated Press. Published February 14, 2014 12:21pm EST | Updated December 10, 2015 9:36pm EST.

Frankel’s interest led her to Turkey, Greece, Morocco and other countries where Sephardic Jews resettled after being expelled from Spain in 1492 when Christianity was declared the official religion.

(Photo by Tom Pich/Wikipedia/Creative Commons) David I. Klein. November 20, 2023 ... the music of Sephardic Jews was in danger of being lost forever.

(RNS) Sephardic organizations estimate that as many as 3.5 million Jews could potentially apply for a Spanish passport. The reaction from the Sephardic community has been huge.