admin | September 30, 2019
When Cary Aufseeser first began researching his family in 2002, he didnt even know the names of all his great-grandparents. Today he can trace his roots back to the Middle Ages and has found hundreds of distant relatives all over the world (and perhaps some new Mexican Americans too). Never miss the best stories and events! Get JewishBoston This Week.
admin | September 30, 2019
The difference between Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews (or Sephardic Jews, Sephardim) is primarily based on their historical origins. Ashkenaz is the Hebrew word for Germany
admin | June 3, 2019
All applicants aged 18-70 who are citizens of non-Spanish speaking countries must pass two Spanish exams given at an Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque, Seattle, Chicago, New York or Boston called the DELE A2 and CCSE. Individuals from Spanish-speaking nations or those born in Puerto Rico only need to pass the CCSE. Important Information for Dual Nationals living in non-Spanish speaking nations If an individual holds two passports, one from a Spanish-speaking country and one from a non-Spanish speaking country, and was born in a Spanish speaking country, s/he can elect to only take the CCSE, but then must undergo two background checks, one from each nations federal police, as well as a local background check from the state or region where they currently reside if they have lived there for less than five years
admin | April 2, 2019
This article is about the music of the Sephardic Jews. For the main article on secular Jewish music, see Secular Jewish music. Sephardic music is an umbrella term used to refer to the music of the Sephardic Jewish community.
admin | April 2, 2019
Before the outbreak of World War II, there were around 56,000 Jews living in the Greek port city of Salonica. By the end of the war, nearly 98% of the Jewish community from Salonica had perished from gassing, forced labor, starvation and disease in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Only 11,000 Greek Jews, from a total pre-war population of 77,000 survived the Holocaust, a figure that includes approximately 1,100 who returned from the Nazi death camps.
admin | January 26, 2019
At the Crossroads of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-Speaking Worlds: A Three-Part Learning and Cultural Series on the Greater Sephardic Communities of the Former Soviet Union Back by popular demand, the American Sephardi Federation's Young Sephardi Scholars Series is excited to once again host a 3-part learning and cultural series on the Russian-speaking Jewish (RSJ) communities of the Greater Sephardic world. The cultures and histories of Bukharian, Georgian, and Kavkazi (M...ountain) Jews are situated at the fascinating, yet lesser known, intersection of RSJ, Sephardic and Mizrahi life.
admin | December 24, 2018
Dr. Devin Naar, Sephardic Studies Program Chair & Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies Dr. Devin E.
richards | November 6, 2018
Eastern Sephardim are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardi Jews, mostly descended from families expelled and exiled from Iberia as Jews in the 15th century following the Alhambra Decree of 1492 in Spain and the decree of 1497 in Portugal.
simmons | October 8, 2018
Sephardi Jews (Yahadut Sfarad) Total population Sephardi Jews1.52.0 million (estimate)up to 20% of the total 'Jewish World' population Regions with significant populations Israel 725,000 France 350,000 United States 100,000 Argentina 60,000 Canada 60,000 Brazil 60,000 Mexico 40,000 Venezuela 35,000 Uruguay 30,000 Italy 30,000 Turkey 25,000 United Kingdom 18,000 Spain 12,000 Greece 8,500 Chile 8.000 Morocco 6,000 Bulgaria 5,000 Colombia 5,000 Cuba 3,500 Serbia 3,000 Croatia 3,000 Peru 3,000 Portugal 2,500 Tunisia 1,000 Puerto Rico 1,500 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,200 Netherlands 1,000 Gibraltar 600 Philippines 500 Republic of Macedonia 200 Egypt 100 Languages Historical: Ladino, Haketia, Judeo-Portuguese, Catalanic, Shuadit, local languages Modern: Local languages, primarily Hebrew, French, English, Spanish, Arabic Judaism Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, other Jewish ethnic divisions, Arabs, Spaniards, Portuguese.
richards | October 3, 2018
This site was created by Yoram Zara, Adv.Yoram is as Israeli attorney with offices in Portugaland Israel. Yoram specializes in obtaining Portuguese citizenship for Sephardi Jews. The information in this siteused to appear on the sitewww.sephardim.com Harry Steins website, SEPHARDIM.COM, has been for a long time one of the major websites for Sephardic genealogy on the Internet
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