Sephardic Communities
The descendants of the Jews of Spain and Portugal, from Morocco and the Ottoman Empire to Amsterdam and the Caribbean.
Sephardic, Mizrahi and Bnei Anusim communities, and others, around the world
For more than 500 years, the descendants of Spain’s and Portugal’s Jews have built communities across North Africa, the Ottoman world, Europe and the Americas. Alongside them live the Mizrahi Jews of Iraq, Iran, Yemen and Central Asia, whose roots in the region go back to antiquity, and the Bnei Anusim, descendants of Iberia’s forced converts. Explore each community’s history, traditions and people today. New to the subject? Start with Who are Sephardic Jews?
The descendants of the Jews of Spain and Portugal, from Morocco and the Ottoman Empire to Amsterdam and the Caribbean.
The ancient Jewish communities of Iraq, Kurdistan, Iran, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Yemen.
Descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews forced to convert to Catholicism, in Iberia and Latin America.
Communities with histories of their own: the Jews of Ethiopia, India, China, Italy and Madagascar.
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Sephardim, of the Moroccan rite, throughout the world will launch the Mimouna festivities immediately after the close of the Passover holiday at sundown. The Mimouna
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