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Over the years, German, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews continued to arrive, playing an important part in the city's history and cultural life. In the late 1800s and early 20th century, a wave of Ashkenazi Jews fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe came to the city, bringing New York's Jewish population to over 1 million in 1910, the world's ...
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 ...
Elvio Sadun (1918-1974), Italian-American scientist and WWII Italian partisan; Safdie brothers, American independent film directors; Fortuna Safdié (1958-), Brazilian singer, composer and Ladino-Revivalist. Haym Salomon (1740-1785), Polish-born American businessman who helped finance the American Revolutionary War; Roberto Saviano (1979 ...
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 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]
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.
American people of Turkish-Jewish descent (1 C, 39 P) Pages in category "American people of Sephardic-Jewish descent" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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 .