HomeWhy were Jews from Spain called Sephardim?
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2015-06-09 19:09:20
2015-06-09 19:09:20
Because "Sepharad" refers to Spain (Rashi commentary, on Obadiah 1:20).
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2015-06-09 19:08:20
2015-06-09 19:08:20
The word comes from the Jewish word "Sepharad," referring to a particular location.
As used today it means "Spanish" and specifically refers to the Jews on the Iberian Peninsula before they were expelled in the 15th century. It also refers to the liturgy, customs, and traditions of that community.
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Ashkenazim are Jews who lived in Europe. Sephardim are Jews who lived in North Africa, the Levant, Near East, Middle East, Asia and limited parts of southern Europe (such as Spain).
Sephardic Jews (Sephardim) were the Jews from Spain and Portugal. After the Muslim conquest of Spain in the eighth century, many Jews fled to Spain in order to escape persecution in Christian Europe, knowing that they would be well-treated under Islamic rule. They became known as Sephardim (Spanish Jews). By the fourteenth century, Spain was once again back under Christian rule and many Jews were converted to Christianity. The remaining Jews were finally expelled from Spain in 1492, and resettled in Islamic Northern Africa and the Middle East. Many of them were absorbed into existing Mizrachi (Arab Jew) communities, while others retained their separate identity as Sephardic Jews. Since the establishment of modern Israel, both Mizrachi and Sephardic Jews have been encouraged to identify simply as Sephardic Jews.
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Sephardic Jews identify as "sephardim," the Hebrew term for Spanish Jewry. Sephardim, by definition, trace their roots back to the Iberian peninsula - Spain and Portugal. The Sephardim identify as jews, not hispanics. "Hispanic," to the best of my knowledge, intimates that one is not only of Spanish descent, but Christian as well. Hispanics are anyone who holds a cultural identity with the Iberian peninsula. There are Jewish people in Latin America that are of Ashkenazi origin, but they are still considered Hispanic. Hispanic is an umbrella term that is used to emcompass many people. If a Sephardic Jew feels a strong Hispanic identity, they can choose to identify with the term.
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It affected Jaudaism because Jews scattered to two main different areas, and some of the Jews from Sephardim mixed with their non-Jewish neighbors.
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They did not need to flee. Spain was never occupied, nor did it have to surrender its Jews.
Where they're from. Sephardic Jews originate from Spain (called Sepharad in Hebrew) and Ashkenazic Jews originate from Germany (called Ashkenaz in Hebrew). Over the years these terms have become more generic, and Ashkenazic has come to mean Jews from most countries in Europe, and Sephardic to mean from Spain or any African country.
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The surname Solis is a Hispanic surname. It has been used by Sephardim (Jews descended from those expelled from Spain in 1492) but it has also been used by Christians. Very few surnames are uniquely connected with the followers of a single religion.
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Sephardic Jews are called Sephardic because they originally lived in Sepharad, the ancient name Jews used for Spain. With the Spanish inquisition, Sephardi Jews fled Spain or were forced out and moved throughout Europe, into the Middle East, and even places like South America and the Caribbean.
No you can't it isn't acceptable at all.Answer:Ashkenazim (Jews of European descent) do not eat peanuts on Passover. Sephardim (Eastern Jews) are allowed to. Peanuts are legumes, not forbidden as leavening; and some Jews accepted a stringency to avoid them.
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Jews in Medieval Spain spoke Spanish and Ladino. They also used Hebrew in prayers.
The Jews were expelled from Spain in that year.
"The Hebrews" is an early name which is used to refer what are later called The Israelites, and (still later) The Jewish People, including both Ashkenazim and Sephardim. See the attached Related Link for more detail.
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Jews who's ancestry includes those who were once part of the Jewish communities of Muslim Spain (where Jews were expelled from by then Catholic Spain in 1492 on Tish b'Av), North Africa and much of the Arab world are known as Sephardim. Their common language was/is Ladino--something like old Spanish written with Hebrew characters. The language and the music of Sephardim sounds a lot like Arabic.Jews who are descendants of those living in Christian Europe (Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, etc.) are known as Ashkenazim. They spoke Yiddish, a mix of those languages, written in Hebrew characters. Yiddish can often be understood with an understanding of German.Genetically, both of these Jewish groups are related although they may look a lot different and have different cultural backgrounds. DNA studies done on Cohens, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi, match. (Read about it online.)
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