Sephardic Jew

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Noun1.Sephardic Jew - a Jew who is of Spanish or Portuguese or North African descent
Sephardi
Jew, Hebrew, Israelite - a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
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For example, as Casteel demonstrates, the writers Maryse Conde, David Dabydeen, and Walcott feature some variant on the male Sephardic Jew who purchases a Black slave and rescues him or her from a Christian master.
CALYPSO JEWS: JEWISHNESS IN THE CARIBBEAN LITERARY IMAGINATION
The words of "The New Colossus" are emblazoned on a plaque at the Statue of Liberty in New York City, written by poet Emma Lazarus - a Sephardic Jew.
The forgotten kingdom of the Jews
Continue reading on Mashallah News An ancient melancholy Over 3,500 kilometres from the Iberian Peninsula -- not to mention a temporal separation of half a millennium -- Jak Esim, a Sephardic Jew, houses in his Istanbul home what he believes is the most comprehensive archive of Judeo-Spanish folk music in the world.
The same arms companies fueling the refugee crisis are the ones profiting from it
In Muslim Bidar, a former Turkish slave from Christian Georgia, could converse in Arabic with a Sephardic Jew from Portugal.
Islam is not an 'implacable' enemy of other monotheistic religions
Yosef Karo (a Sephardic Jew), according to Yemeni interpretation.
Politics of memory in Yemen (Part 1): Yemen's Jews, a brief history
Samuel Djerassi, a Bulgarian Sephardic Jew. Samuel Djerassi was a physician who specialized in treating syphilis with the existing arsenical drugs.
Contraceptive Pill 'Father' Gets Honorary Diploma from American College of Sofia
For example a Sephardic Jew by the name of Luis de Santangelo, advanced a sum of 17,000 ducats (about $5,000) to finance one such voyage in 1492.
Slave trade: the Jewish connection
I think It's sanctifying God's gifted charm Of wine, women, and song to a Sephardic Jew.
Kiddush in sonnetry with Shmuel Hanagid and Hillel Halkin
To her Ashkenazi peers, meanwhile, as a non-Arab Egyptian and Sephardic Jew unaware of gefilte fish, Yiddish, or "kosher," she is neither a real Egyptian nor a real Jew.
Joyce Zonana. Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey
However, she discovered an ecstatic quality to Spinoza's thought that she attributed to the historical circumstances of being a Sephardic Jew in Amsterdam.
Rebecca Goldstein. Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
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