Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Spanish-Portuguese Jews, as distinguished from Ash-kenazim, or German-Polish Jews. See
Ashkenazim .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
Sephardi .
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[From Wiki] For religious purposes, the term Sephardim means all Jews who use a Sephardic style of liturgy, and therefore includes most Jews of Arabic and Persian background, whether or not they have any historical or ethnographic connection to the Iberian Peninsula.
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To see how complex the race-based arguments can get, glance at this: [From Wiki] For religious purposes, the term Sephardim means all Jews who use a Sephardic style of liturgy, and therefore includes most Jews of Arabic and Persian background, whether or not they have any historical or ethnographic connection to the Iberian Peninsula.
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Parents of European, or Ashkenazi, descent at a girls 'school in the West Bank settlement of Emanuel don't want their daughters to study with schoolgirls of Mideast and North African descent, known as Sephardim, arguing that they are not religious enough.
Digest 2010
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Oriental Jews known as Sephardim, whose families had come from the Middle East and Africa, gave the Likud coalition parties a political margin in 1977, and they were inclined to support a much more militant policy in dealing with the occupied territories.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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Oriental Jews known as Sephardim, whose families had come from the Middle East and Africa, gave the Likud coalition parties a political margin in 1977, and they were inclined to support a much more militant policy in dealing with the occupied territories.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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Oriental Jews known as Sephardim, whose families had come from the Middle East and Africa, gave the Likud coalition parties a political margin in 1977, and they were inclined to support a much more militant policy in dealing with the occupied territories.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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Oriental Jews known as Sephardim, whose families had come from the Middle East and Africa, gave the Likud coalition parties a political margin in 1977, and they were inclined to support a much more militant policy in dealing with the occupied territories.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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Oriental Jews known as Sephardim, whose families had come from the Middle East and Africa, gave the Likud coalition parties a political margin in 1977, and they were inclined to support a much more militant policy in dealing with the occupied territories.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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Oriental Jews known as Sephardim, whose families had come from the Middle East and Africa, gave the Likud coalition parties a political margin in 1977, and they were inclined to support a much more militant policy in dealing with the occupied territories.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006
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The Sephardim are the Spanish-Portuguese Jews, who immigrated after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain under Isabella I; most of them now speak Arabic, though some still speak a Spanish patois.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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