Sephardic Jew
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- noun
- /səˈfɑrdɪk dʒu/
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judío sefardí
- Today, about 82 percent of the world's Jews are descended from Ashkenazic Jews, 11 percent from Sephardic Jews, and 7 percent from Oriental Jews.
Well, what do you, what do people think about the, the, the, the Sephardic Jews?
- Well, what do you, what do people think about the, the, the, the Sephardic Jews?
Examples
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"Sephardic Jews, Palestinians, and Christians lived very peacefully in Palestine prior to the waves of European Zionist colonizers."
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A group of 23 Sephardic Jews arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654 from Recife, Brazil.
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I should always be clear that Sephardic Jews are different.
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Now the Sephardic Jews are able to make it into the upper and upper middle class.
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One million Sephardic Jews returned to Israel in 1948 as they were driven out of the Arab countries.
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Today this disease is found in Sephardic Jews and the Arabs of Saudi Arabia.
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Nevertheless, this is unsurprising because Sephardic Jews lived alongside smaller Islamic communities.
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Aron was a Sephardic Jew from Portugal, who wrote a book in Hebrew about prize fighting.
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But as early as the 1930s, researchers recognized that although Tay-Sachs was prevalent among Ashkenazi Jews, its rate among Sephardic Jews was no different from that in the rest of the population.
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A group of 23 Sephardic Jews arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654 from Recife, Brazil.
Synonyms
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A person who follows the religion Judaism or has Jewish ancestors
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A Jewish person whose family came from Spain or Portugal
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A Jewish person whose family comes from Spain, Portugal, or North Africa
A member of the ancient people now known as the Jews
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'Sephardic' specifies a cultural/origin trait (Jews of Iberian/North African origin), so combining it with 'Jew' yields a straightforward descriptive noun phrase meaning a Jew of Sephardic background. This is a regular compositional pattern (ADJ + NOUN denoting subtype) and is cross-linguistically common, so a learner who knows both constituents can derive the full meaning.
Etymology
Sephardic Jew comes from the old Hebrew word Sepharad, meaning 'Spain'. Jews who lived in Spain and later in Portugal, North Africa and the Ottoman lands were called this, so today Sephardic Jew means 'a Jew from Spain, Portugal, or their descendants'.