Sephardi

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Sephardim (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew Səfardi, Tiberian Hebrew ard?; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Sfaradim, Tiberian Hebrew ) are a subgroup of Jews, generally defined in contrast to Ashkenazim and/or .

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In the strictest sense, a Sephardi is a Jew original to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal: ספרד, Standard Hebrew Səf?rad, Tiberian Hebrew / ), or one whose ancestors were among the Jews expelled during the Spanish Inquisition incited by the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella (as codified in the Alhambra decree of 1492), or among the Jews expelled from Portugal in the subsequent Portuguese Inquisition (1497) by king Manuel I at the insitence of Isabella.

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Jew: The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes....