How To Use Sephardi In A Sentence

  • Sephardic Jews spoke Arabic, too, but inside the community, their language was Judezmo, a Jewish language based on Spanish, with a written form called Ladino.
  • The wooden canopied bimah was not in the middle of the shul, but - in Sephardic fashion - just to the right of the entrance doorway.
  • Indeed, ‘No Seas Capritchioza’ and ‘Kadife’, two of the songs included here, have lyrics in Ladino, the Sephardic language.
  • Feeling more at home in the Muslim world of Spain, North Africa and the Middle East, Sephardim such as Maimonides took up the challenge of that new civilization, a civilization best characterized by the term "religious humanism," and produced an efflorescent literature that was matched by an economic dynamism that in the early modern period extended its reach into Holland, England, and Italy. David Shasha: Collateral Damage: Jewish Fratricide and the Demonizing of Córdoba
  • Sephardic culture was diasporic, indeed, all the more so because it formed from a previous diaspora, necessitated by the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 ce.
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  • Here Nitin Sawhney goes flamenco, Israel's Yasmin Levy sings in Ladino, the nearly-extinct language of the Sephardic Jews - and Salif Keita goes back to Mali and his Mandinka roots.
  • But about three years ago, a group of Ashkenazi parents, who said they followed stricter religious practices than some of the Sephardim, set up a separate educational track within the school, called the Hasidic track. NYT > Global Home
  • In this version, Professor Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle how to pronounce /r/ ‘properly', i.e. as the Hebrew alveolar trill [r] (characteristic of Sephardic Jews, who happen to have been socially disadvantaged) rather than as the Israeli unique lax uvular approximant [®′] (characteristic of Ashkenazic Jews, who have usually controlled key positions in society). Languagehat.com: HEBREW OR ISRAELI?
  • The interior remains faithful to the traditional Sephardic liturgy, with the congregation seated face to face and the Rabbi standing on the bimah opposite the Ark.
  • In addition, the Ashkenazic Jews speak Yiddish, which is a peculiarly Eastern European mixture of German and Hebrew, while the Sephardic Jews speak Ladino.
  • The wealthier and more influential Sephardim spoke Italian and Ladino, while the Yiddish of the Ashkenazim had to compete with the more prestigious English.
  • She felt that there were cultural and language barriers that kept Seattle Ashkenazim and Sephardim from socializing and intermarrying in Seattle. Personal Information for Fortuna Calvo-Roth
  • They were religious or secular, Ashkenazi or Sephardic; from a city, a kibbutz or a moshav; Russian or native-born, etc.
  • Anything is tastier than schav… and yes, my whole family is from Europe, my mother’s family is mostly from Latvia, but I don’t think that using Sephardi/Israeli pronunciation is evidence that I’ve abandoned that heritage. ISTV | Jewschool
  • This has led to the rejection of Sephardic Jewish Humanism as formulated by Maimonides and an affirmation of an ethnocentric Jewish chauvinism based on the magical mysticism of Kabbalistic theurgy. David Shasha: Dangerous Mystic Motifs in Judaism
  • What follows is typical of the "Ashkenazic" (i.e. European) tradition, and does not include the eight symbolic foods of the "Sephardic" (i.e. Eastern) Seder - NYT > Home Page
  • I would think that the Rambam, as a Sephardi Jew, the Rambam would have been quite familiar with glatt kosher (though not the term “glatt”, which is Yiddish); the Bes Yosef (who, granted, lived after the Rambam) ruled that there cannot be lesions on the lungs of a kosher animal, even if those lesions have healed. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography
  • The Bene Israel themselves never had a rabbi of their own, although individuals versed both in Sephardi and exclusive Bene Israel liturgy acted as hazzanim.
  • The finding of a common set of genetic markers in both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Cohanim worldwide clearly indicates an origin pre-dating the separate development of the two communities around 1000 CE.
  • A banishment from Bavaria in 1470 brought more Ashkenazi Jews to Bulgaria, who in spite of their later adoption of Sephardic customs, the Ladino language, and names, for a long time maintained separate synagogues.
  • As my ailing father spoke of this background, he had come to embrace his Marrano heritage and the Sephardic revivalism that had become part of contemporary Jewish-American culture.
  • The Jerusalem Ashkenazic community founded a remarkable number of hadarim and yeshivot for their male population, while the Sephardic community suggested that only those males who excelled in their studies should devote their lives to Torah studies. Old Yishuv: Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period.
  • Wealthier widows received a regular allowance from their families abroad and lived in well-appointed rooms, some even adopting “sons” from the Sephardic community who would care for their needs and ease their solitude; however, most of the women were not rich, and they created a unique female (unisexual) community. Old Yishuv: Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period.
  • One project is chronicling the legacy of Sephardic music from different medieval Spanish cities.
  • Having been expelled from Spain in 1492, the Sephardim, speaking Ladino, a Spanish dialect, found refuge in north Africa, the Levant, the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands, and Italy.
  • The wooden canopied bimah was not in the middle of the shul, but - in Sephardic fashion - just to the right of the entrance doorway.
  • [In spite of being Sephardic, here he uses the Yiddish terms, fleishik and milchik.] JPost Headlines
  • If Cardozo was Hispanic, so is your columnist, owing to our Sephardic patrilineage. Beat the Dealer
  • In concert with the marginalization of the Sephardi elite class was the concomitant attempt to resocialize the Sephardim. David Shasha: Israel's Sephardic-Ashkenazi Rift: The Shas Paradox
  • Khazzoom notes that even when the music is Sephardi or Mizrahi in origin, it is often played by Ashkenazim who know little about the music's origins or meaning.
  • The Sephardic tradition originated in the Babylonian community; with the diaspora it took root in Spain and Africa, and moved on from there.
  • Ashkenazic" refers to Western and Central European, Yiddish-speaking Jews; "Sephardic" refers to Ladino-speaking Jews of the Iberian Peninsula and the Levant. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal developed Ladino, a mixture of Spanish and Hebrew, while Ashkenazic Jews in central and eastern Europe spoke Yiddish, a combination of medieval German and Hebrew.
  • It was at this critical moment that the fundamental tenor of Sephardic life began to change into its modern form.
  • No democracy in the world would divide its citizens into two or three classes: Ashkenazi being first-class citizens, Sephardi and Falasha being arguably the second, and last & indeed least, the unwanted pesky Arabs put in some sort of non-citizenship status. Global Voices in English » Morocco: On “Jewish Morocco”
  • Sephardic comes from the Hebrew word for Spain and Ashkenazic from the Hebrew for German. Emancipation
  • In 1884, the first newspaper in Ladino - the language of Sephardic Jews - was founded, although in time all Jewish newspapers in the country published in Bulgarian.
  • Once they had done their stuff I had a sudden urge to whip up a batch of almond macaroons using this Marunchinos (Sephardi almond macaroons) recipe.
  • There is a Spanish language paper published every day in Ladino, the medieval Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews kicked out of Andalucia by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492.
  • There he saw people ‘who looked more Spanish than Turkish’ and who ‘were praying and speaking in Ladino, the language of the Sephardic Jews’.
  • The three populations I most resemble from a genetic perspective (besides other Ashkenazic Jews, and, I assume, likely Sephardic Jews as well) are Druze, Bedouin, and Palestinian. The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » May
  • Original Tony, you sorry, ignorant dolt: look at a light-skinned, brown-haired Ashkenazi Jew; then look at a light-skinned, dark-haired Bene Romi from central Italy; then look at a tanned, curly-haired Sephardi from (originally) Iraq; then look at a negro Falasha Jew from Ethiopia; then at a brown-skinned, smooth-haired Cochin Jew from southern India; and explain, if you can, how these are all from one race. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • A NOTE ABOUT LADINO Judeo-Spanish, sometimes called Judezmo (or Djudezmo), is the spoken language of the Sephardic Jews who lived in Spain since the tenth century and were expelled by official decree in 1492. Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 45
  • Evolved over hundreds of years and combining various influences from the history of the region - Gypsy, Sephardic, Moorish, Byzantine, and Latin American - flamenco is best to watch at fairs, where locals, often the best traditional flamenco dancers, who learned from childhood by watching relatives, burst into clamorous performances of stomping and clapping. The Prague Post
  • She vividly described the process of pauperization of the Sephardi lower class, the petty shopkeepers, the artisans and the workers of Sarajevo in the 1930s. Yugoslavia.
  • There were Ashkenazim and Sephardim, Ethiopians and Russians, American students and fourth-generation sabras.
  • Give me a Sephardic baritone with Ladino melodies and I'm in davening heaven. David Suissa: A Woman's Spiritual Edge
  • Marriage in the first generation of immigrants was endogamous, as social contact with other Jewish groups (even among Sephardim) was rare. Argentina: Sephardic Women.

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