Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Sephardim: as, Sephardic ritual. Also
Sepharadic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Jews (the
Sephardim , also calledSpanish orPortuguese Jews ) descended from Jewish families driven from Spain by the Inquisition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective relating to the tradition, customs, rituals and language of the
Sephardi Jews
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Examples
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The term Sephardic Jews refers to those who left the Spanish region to inhabit Morocco, Greece, Turkey, Egypt and throughout the entire Mediterranean region as well as to Holland and England.
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Louises conversation and memories are filled with Ladino [Judeo-Spanish] words and phrases spoken within Spanish-Sephardic Jewish cultur
Personal Information for Louise Azoze Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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Louises conversation and memories are filled with Ladino [Judeo-Spanish] words and phrases spoken within Spanish-Sephardic Jewish cultur
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Louise’s conversation and memories are filled with Ladino [Judeo-Spanish] words and phrases spoken within Spanish-Sephardic Jewish cultures.
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But the Sephardic Film Festival, now celebrating its 15th year, also takes us on a journey to other exotic lands where Jews - who while not always technically Sephardic from the Hebrew word for Spain: Sepharad - also survived with a fortitude that enabled them to hold firmly to their roots and faith.
Richard Z. Chesnoff: Sephardic Film Festival: From Spanish Expulsion to Vidal Sassoon Richard Z. Chesnoff 2011
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For Jews, however, the date marks the expulsion from Spain “convert, leave, or die”, followed in 1497 by the expulsion from Portugal, collectively known as the Sephardic Diaspora.
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Sephardic comes from the Hebrew word for Spain and Ashkenazic from the Hebrew for German.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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Dominican Republic records show that an organization called the Sephardic Jewish Community
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But Mr. Puello, who has denied any wrongdoing, said in an interview on Thursday that he was the president of an organization called the Sephardic Jewish Community in the Dominican Republic.
Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?) admin 2010
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But Mr. Puello, who has denied any wrongdoing, said in an interview on Thursday that he was the president of an organization called the Sephardic Jewish Community in the Dominican Republic.
Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?) admin 2010
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