Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A descendant of the Jews who lived in Spain and Portugal during the Middle Ages until persecution culminating in expulsion in 1492 forced them to leave.
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- noun a
Jew ofIberian ancestry, whose native language wasLadino
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- noun a Jew who is of Spanish or Portuguese or North African descent
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word Sephardi refers to Jews whose ancestors lived in Spain and Portugal until
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SHAS is concerned more with religion than ethnicity or social justice - as shown by its use of the religious term 'Sephardi' and not the sociopolitical appellation 'Mizrahi.'
David Shasha: Israel's Sephardic-Ashkenazi Rift: The Shas Paradox 2010
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Among major themes that emerged in late twentieth-century American Jewish fiction focusing on women, some of the most important included: the role of the Holocaust in the identity of survivors, their children, and the broader Jewish community; Israel as a focal point of American Jewish identity and a setting for the exploration of Jewish identity; a variety of religious and cultural subgroups within Jewish life, such as Sephardi Jewish communities, ultra-Orthodox communities, and feminist groups; sexual subgroups, such as Jewish lesbians and homosexuals; gendered relationships and the tension between intellectual and sensual, personal and professional, or Jewish and humanistic agendas in the lives of contemporary American Jewish women.
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Again, there was a lot of cross fertilisation of ideas based on “my father says ...” stories and it was one of the Sephardi boys who told me that his father was very much a non zionist who had opposed partition and that he was always saying that some of the zionists were no better than thugs and that partition would end in tears.
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Damascus had a Sephardi congregation of 500 families.
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Last time I went to Tetouan, I was asked by a Sephardi friend to visit the Jewish Cemetery and check that a family tomb was in good order.
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Many a “Portuguese Sailor” was a Sephardi Jew hiding from the Inquisitors.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Wrong with This Assertion? 2010
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Unsolicited, you recounted your personal experiences as one of the non-Christians at an English public school, telling us what the father of a Sephardi Jewish student told him and he in turn told you about what in his view should have happened in the Mandate Territories.
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I thought it was well-known that the community of Jews in the Netherlands started as Sephardi rather than Ashkenazy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Wrong with This Assertion? 2010
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On displacement — since my forebears along with many Sephardi Jews were displaced from Muslim Andalusia at the time of the Spanish Reconquista and we ended up in the UK, I feel some sympathy for all displaced persons and refugees.
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