Example sentences for: sephardic

How can you use “sephardic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An essay about Israel's 50 th birthday warns that the country is dividing against itself, fragmenting into Orthodox, Russian, Ethiopian, Arab, Sephardic, and Ashkenazi interest groups.

  • For centuries, the Sephardic Jewish neighborhoods of cities from Tangier, Fez, and Amsterdam to Salonika, Istanbul, and Aleppo echoed with Ladino, a 15th-century Castilian dialect (sprinkled with Hebrew words) spoken by the Spanish exiles wherever they settled.

  • Safra's largess also included chairs at the universities of Harvard and Pennsylvania, synagogues, hospitals, the New York Holocaust Museum, and the Institute for Sephardic Studies at Yeshiva University in New York City.

  • Sephardic Jews are the descendants of the great Jewish community exiled from Spain in 1492 at the time of the Inquisition.

  • Behind the statue is the Portugese-Israëlitische Synagoge (Portuguese Synagogue) which was inaugurated in 1675 for the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews who settled in the city.


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