Sephardic Jews in The Netherlands

As a result of the Inquisition, many Sephardim left the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 15th century and throughout the 16th century, in search of religious freedom. Some of them found their way to the newly independent Dutch provinces. Many of the Jews who left for the Dutch provinces wer...

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Sephardic South America

The contemporary Sephardic communities in Latin America were created by Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, most of whom emigrated to the continent between the 1890s and the end of the 1920s. They combined religion with ethnicity by creating communal frameworks that united Jews from a common...

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