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  2. History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Salonica became the Jewish center of the Ottoman Empire after 1492. At this time, the Spanish Inquisition began in Spain and Portugal and Jews were forced to convert to Christianity or emigrate. Religious persecution caused many Sephardic Jews to immigrate to Salonica and make up a majority of the city's population.

  3. History of the Jews in Turkey - Wikipedia

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    Anatolia's Jewish population before Ottoman times primarily consisted of Greek-speaking Romaniote Jews, with a handful of dispersed Karaite communities. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, many Sephardic Jews from Spain, Portugal and South Italy expelled by the Alhambra Decree found refuge across the Ottoman Empire , including ...

  4. Eastern Sephardim - Wikipedia

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    The presence of Sephardim and New Christians along the Malabar coast eventually aroused the ire of the Catholic Church, which then obtained permission from the Portuguese crown to establish the Goan Inquisition against the Sephardic Jews of India. In recent times, principally after 1948, most Eastern Sephardim have relocated to Israel, and ...

  5. Sephardic Jews - Wikipedia

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    Sephardic Jews, [a] also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, [b] [1] and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, [2] are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). [2] The term, which is derived from the Hebrew Sepharad (lit.

  6. Old Yishuv - Wikipedia

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    In 1720, when they were unable to repay their debts, Arab creditors broke into the synagogue, set it on fire, and destroyed their homes. The Jews fled the city and over the next century, any Jew dressed in Ashkenazi garb was a target of attack. [28] Some of the Ashkenazi Jews who remained began to dress like Sephardic Jews.

  7. Spanish and Portuguese Jews - Wikipedia

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    The main 'Western Sephardic Jewish' communities developed in Western Europe, Italy, and the non-Iberian regions of the Americas. In addition to the term "Western Sephardim", this sub-group of Sephardic Jews is sometimes also referred to also as "Spanish and Portuguese Jews," "Spanish Jews," "Portuguese Jews," or "Jews of the Portuguese Nation."

  8. Sabetay Djaen - Wikipedia

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    Sabetay Josef Djaen (Serbian: Šabetaj Josef Đaen; 1883 – November 10, 1947) was a Bulgarian-born Sephardic rabbi active in Macedonia, Romania, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile. He was an author, playwright, educator, and columnist in both Ladino and Serbian. He was one of the central figures of the Sephardic Jewish diaspora between the two ...

  9. History of the Jews in Istanbul - Wikipedia

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    In marked contrast to Jews in Europe, Ottoman Jews were allowed to work in any profession and could also enter the Ottoman court. Ottoman Jews in Istanbul excelled in commerce and trade and came to dominate the medical profession. [3] Despite making up only 10% of the city population, Jews constituted 62% of licensed doctors in 1600. [1]