Search results for "Sephardic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Among Sephardic Jews, poetic prayers known as selichot are recited before the regular morning service (these are the same prayers recited before ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- " equally common in Ashkenazic and Sephardic groups * HaLevi, Halevi and Halevy are Hebrew language and all translate to "the Levi" ...21 KB (3,292 words) - 22:17, 25 October 2022
- Born in London, David Ricardo was the third of 17 children in a Sephardic Jewish family (from Portugal) that emigrated from the Netherlands to ...22 KB (3,471 words) - 08:07, 28 January 2024
- The typeface is based on a fifteenth century Sephardic semi-cursive hand. What would be called "Rashi script" was employed by early Hebrew ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- Thrace. After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews settled in Thessaloniki (known in this period as Salonica or Selanik), which became ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- practice of their faith through fear of death. Sephardic Jews living in Goa, many of whom had fled the Iberian Peninsula to escape the Spanish Inquisition ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- from all nations. Many Conversos (Marranos or Sephardic Jews) were attracted to the city. In May 1544, a ship landed there filled with Portuguese refugees. ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- Sephardic music, the music of Spanish Jews, was born in medieval Spain, with cancioneros being performed at the royal courts. There are three ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- his poem, The Kingly Crown, is included in the Sephardic liturgy of the Day of Atonement. He is sometimes referred to as "Avicebron" in the ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam in 1632. He was given the name 'Bento ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- since descendants of a Portuguese group of Sephardic Jews arrived from Amsterdam and Brazil in 1654. ==Culture== The culture of the Netherlands ...29 KB (4,221 words) - 04:34, 11 March 2023
- (January 2002), whose signatories include the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Bakshi-Doron; Sheikh Tal El Sider, a Minister of State for the Palestinian ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- In a modern context, the text continues to be read by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews on Sabbath eve, to symbolize the love between the Jewish People ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 01:14, 4 February 2023
- Disraeli descended from Italian Sephardic Jews from both his maternal and paternal sides, although he claimed Spanish ancestry during his own ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- Jewish communities, particularly that of the Sephardic communities in Spain. This led to the composition of many other commentaries in similar styles ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- *Jews, both Sephardic and AshkenaziEast European. ===Religion=== Because of the great number of ethnic groups in the country, there is no main ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
- Russian Jews; with a significant minority of Sephardic, mostly Syrian Jews. [[Image:BuenosAiresCathedral1.JPG|thumb|left|300px|Buenos Aires' ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- ] – Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/BURLAT/3* ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- Kabbala (or Kabbalah) (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה, meaning "received tradition") refers to an esoteric collection of Jewish mystical ...68 KB (10,629 words) - 21:49, 4 October 2022
- dates to the settlement of 42 mostly Sephardic Portuguese Jews in Savannah in 1733. Atlanta also has a large and established Jewish community. ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 15:40, 29 November 2022
- of German and Italian origin. There are also Sephardic Jews (Judeo-Spanish Jews). ===Sports=== The most popular sport in Ecuador, as in most South ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- as well as the native Algerian Jews (typically Sephardic in origin), became full French citizens; by contrast, the vast majority of Muslim Algerians ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- Site, and several Roman, Ottoman and Sephardic Jewish structures. ... to 16th century, however, nearly 20,000 Sephardic Jews immigrated to Greece ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- century. There is, however, a sizable number of Sephardic Jews in Cuba, who trace their origin to Turkey (primarily Istanbul and Thrace). Most of these ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- The Sephardim or Sephardic Jews trace their descent from the Jews of this period. Jewish scholarship flourished alongside the Muslim academies. ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- Spanish citizenship on the basis of being a Sephardic Jew, even if there was no evidences of Sephardism. When Franco was warned that Hitler would not ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- country. Pakistan is home to a small community of Sephardic Jews, but their numbers have been falling since the creation of Israel. There are also sizable ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- ethnic groups—Berbers and Arabs—Phoenicians, Sephardic Jews, and sub-Saharan Africans. The Arabs invaded Morocco in the seventh century and ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- unique interplay of native Andalusian, Islamic, Sephardic, and Gypsy cultures that existed in Andalusia prior to and after the Reconquest. Latin American ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- of whom live in Skopje. Most Macedonian Jews are Sephardic - the descendants of fifteenth century refugees who had fled the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- claims that the Danse Macabre originated among Sephardic Jews in fourteenth century Spain (Bercovici, 1992). The poem "The Rattle Bag" ...48 KB (7,671 words) - 23:50, 11 January 2023
- uneasy due to the large European and Sephardic Jewish population (see also pied noir), which largely evacuated to France when Algeria became ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- Sephardic Jews have over a 300 year history in South Carolina, especially in and around Charleston. South Carolina had, until around 1830, the ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," or in Arabic "Dawlat Isrā'īl") is a country in the Southwest ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- an aunt's erroneous view that the family was Sephardic and had fled the Spanish Inquisition. For his early poems, Pinter used the pseudonym Pinta ...89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
- off donations from off-country, while many Sephardic Jews found themselves a trade. Many Circassians and Bosnian Muslims were settled in the north ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
