Sephardi Jews

E4526

Jewish ethnic group religious-ethnic community

Sephardi Jews are a Jewish ethnic group originating from the Iberian Peninsula, whose descendants spread throughout the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East, developing distinctive religious traditions, liturgy, and cultural practices.

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All labels observed (53)

Label	Occurrences
Sephardi Jews canonical	56
Sephardic Jews	28
Sephardi Judaism	10
Sephardic Judaism	8
Sephardi Jew	4
Ottoman Sephardic communities	3
Sephardi communities	3
Sephardic Jewry	3
Eastern Sephardim	2
Portuguese Jews	2
Sephardi Haredim	2
Sephardic Jewish communities	2
Sephardic diaspora	2
Western Sephardim	2
Andalusian Jewry	1
Belmonte Jews	1
Conversos	1
Italian Sephardi Jews	1
Jewish community of al-Andalus	1
Livornese Jews	1
Mediterranean Sephardic communities	1
Mediterranean Sephardic diaspora	1
New Christians	1
North African Sephardic Jews	1
North African Sephardim	1
Paradesi Jews	1
Portuguese Sephardic Jews	1
Portuguese-Israelite community	1
Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam	1
Sefaradim	1
Sephardi	1
Sephardi (some communities)	1
Sephardi Jewish communities	1
Sephardi Jews in France	1
Sephardi Jews in Syria	1
Sephardi Jews in Turkey	1
Sephardi Jews in the United Kingdom	1
Sephardi diaspora	1
Sephardic Haredi Judaism	1
Sephardic Jew	1
Sephardic Jewish community	1
Sephardic Jewish community of Jerusalem	1
Sephardic Jewish community of St. Thomas	1
Sephardic Jewish culture	1
Sephardic Jewish world	1
Sephardic Kabbalists	1
Sephardic world	1
Sephardim	1
Spanish Jewish communities	1
Spanish Jewry	1
Spanish Jews	1
Spanish and Portuguese Jews	1
traditionalist Sephardic Jews	1

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Jewish ethnic group ⓘ religious-ethnic community ⓘ
burialCustoms	distinct Sephardi burial and mourning customs ⓘ
culturalPractice	Sephardi culinary traditions ⓘ distinct marriage and family customs ⓘ distinct synagogue melodies and piyyutim ⓘ use of Ladino in songs and liturgy ⓘ
differentiatedFrom	Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora ⓘ surface form: Ashkenazi Jews Mizrahi Jews ⓘ
dispersedTo	Balkans ⓘ Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ Israel ⓘ Latin America ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ North America ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ Western Europe ⓘ
ethnoreligiousIdentity	Jewish ⓘ
experiencedEvent	Spanish Expulsion of 1492 ⓘ surface form: Alhambra Decree of 1492 Spanish Inquisition ⓘ expulsion from Portugal in 1497 ⓘ expulsion from Spain in 1492 ⓘ forced conversions in Iberia ⓘ
halakhicAuthority	Maimonides ⓘ Yosef Karo ⓘ
halakhicCode	Shulchan Aruch ⓘ
historicalCenter	Islamic Spain ⓘ surface form: Al-Andalus medieval Portugal ⓘ medieval Spain ⓘ
influencedBy	Islamic Golden Age ⓘ surface form: Arabic-Islamic civilization Iberian culture ⓘ Mediterranean cultures ⓘ
language	Arabic (various dialects) ⓘ Haketia ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) ⓘ surface form: Judeo-Spanish Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) ⓘ surface form: Ladino
liturgy	Siddur ⓘ surface form: Nusach Sepharad Sephardi liturgy ⓘ
majorCommunity	Sephardi Jews in Egypt ⓘ Sephardi Jews in Greece ⓘ Sephardi Jews in Israel ⓘ Sephardi Jews in Latin America ⓘ Sephardi Jews in Morocco ⓘ Sephardi Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Sephardi Jews in Syria Sephardi Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Sephardi Jews in Turkey Sephardi Jews in the Netherlands ⓘ Sephardi Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Sephardi Jews in the United Kingdom Sephardi Jews in the United States ⓘ
nameEtymology	derived from the Hebrew word "Sefarad" meaning Spain ⓘ
originatedIn	Iberian Peninsula ⓘ Portugal ⓘ Spain ⓘ
recognizedAs	one of the major Jewish ethnic divisions ⓘ
religiousLawOrientation	generally follows rulings of Yosef Karo over Moshe Isserles ⓘ
religiousMusic	Sephardi piyyut tradition ⓘ
religiousTradition	Sephardi halakhic tradition ⓘ Sephardi minhagim (customs) ⓘ Sephardi rite ⓘ
selfDesignation	Sephardi Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Sefaradim

Referenced by (166)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jews → hasEthnicSubdivision → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Baruch Spinoza → ethnicGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Baruch Spinoza → excommunicatedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam

Judeo-Arabic → usedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Mountain Jews → relatedGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Jewish diaspora → hasCommunityType → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Spanish Expulsion of 1492 → affectedGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardic Jews

Spanish Expulsion of 1492 → affectedGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish Jewish communities

Sephardi Jews → majorCommunity → Sephardi Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Jews in Turkey

Sephardi Jews → majorCommunity → Sephardi Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Jews in Syria

Sephardi Jews → majorCommunity → Sephardi Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Jews in the United Kingdom

Sephardi Jews → selfDesignation → Sephardi Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sefaradim

Italian Jews → hasSubgroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Livornese Jews

Italian Jews → hasSubgroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Italian Sephardi Jews

Shulchan Aruch → religiousSubtradition → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Judaism

Shalom Aleichem → usedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Levi → usedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Rabbinic Judaism → majorSubtradition → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Judaism

St. Thomas Synagogue → tradition → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Judaism

St. Thomas Synagogue → foundedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardic Jews

St. Thomas Synagogue → foundedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish and Portuguese Jews

Romaniote Jews → predate → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Romaniote Jews → distinctFrom → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Rashi script → developedInRegion → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardic Jewish communities

Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) → hasEthnicGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardic Jews

Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) → usedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardic Jewish communities

Haredi Jews → hasMajorBranch → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Haredim

Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo → ethnicGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

subject surface form: Benjamin N. Cardozo

this entity surface form: Sephardic Jews

Etz Chaim → hasReligiousCommunity → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardic Kabbalists

Joseph Gikatilla → ethnicGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Jew

Nachmanides (Ramban) → schoolTradition → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

subject surface form: Nachmanides

this entity surface form: Sephardic Judaism

Musaf → usedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi communities

Yosef Karo → ethnicGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Machzor → usedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Kol Nidre → recitedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Mishneh Torah → usedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi communities

Abuhav Synagogue → denomination → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Judaism

Jewish Americans → ethnicOrigin → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Joseph Karo → ethnicGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Palestinian Jews → hasPart → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Sephardi-Mizrahi prayer rite → associatedWithCommunity → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Georgian Jews → relatedEthnicGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Italkim → distinctFrom → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Rif → ethnicGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Jew

Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasadim → denomination → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardi Judaism

Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasadim → hasCommunity → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardic Jewish community of St. Thomas

Haketia → historicallySpokenBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardic Jews

Aleinu → usedBy → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

Portuguese Inquisition → persecutedGroup → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: New Christians

Synagogue of El Tránsito → denomination → Sephardi Jews ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sephardic Judaism