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Judaeo-Spanish and Judaeo-Portuguese, also called Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish and Old Portuguese that was spoken by the eastern Sephardic Jews who settled in the Eastern Mediterranean after their expulsion from Spain in 1492; Haketia (also known as "Tetuani Ladino" in Algeria), an Arabic-influenced variety of Judaeo ...
Initially, American Jews resisted Israeli efforts. Following Mikhail Gorbachev's decision in the late 1980s to allow free emigration for Soviet Jews, the American Jewish community agreed to a quota on Soviet Jewish refugees in the U.S., which resulted in most Soviet Jewish émigrés settling in Israel. [134]
The first Sephardic Jews in Seattle, Solomon Calvo (1879–1964) and Jacob (Jack) Policar (d. 1961), came from Marmara, Turkey and Rhodes, Greece. They brought with them their culinary heritage, Ladino language, and distinct Sephardic religious and legal tradition. [2]
Gershom Mendes Seixas (January 15, 1745 – July 2, 1816) was the first native-born Jewish religious leader in the United States.He served as the hazzan of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York City's first Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, for about five decades.
The Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam of September 1654 was the first organized Jewish migration to North America. It comprised 23 Sephardi Jews, refugees "big and little" of families fleeing persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition after the conquest of Dutch Brazil.
The Jews of Spain : A History of the Sephardic Experience. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-02-911573-6. Gibbes, Robert Wilson (1853–1857). Documentary History of the American Revolution. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Huhner, Leon. (1901) "Francis Salvador, A Prominent Patriot of the Revolutionary War," Publications of the American Jewish ...
Jews of European descent, often referred to as white Jews, are classified as white by the US census and have generally been classified as legally white throughout American history. [119] Many American Jews of European descent identify themselves as being both Jewish and white, while others solely identify themselves as being Jewish or identify ...
Note: A discussion (10 May 2023) decided that for American Jews the adjective would remain as Sephardic although other countries use Sephardi: See e.g. Category:French Sephardi Jews . Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.