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Pages in category "American people of Sephardic-Jewish descent" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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]
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.
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]
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.
Pages in category "Sephardi Jewish culture in the United States" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The American Sephardi Federation, a founding member of the Center for Jewish History, is a non-profit Jewish organization that strengthens and organizes the religious and cultural activities of Sephardic Jews, preserves Sephardic heritage, tradition and culture in the United States, and assists in the publication of books and literature dealing with the Sephardic culture and tradition.
He attended the first Sephardi Congress in 1925, where he was elected vice-president of the World Sephardi Federation. In the years prior to the Holocaust, he was a central and unifying figure for Yugoslav Jewry. In 1928, he published a study of Jews through the Balkans in the late-19th century and the early-20th century. [4]