Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely...

(also known more ambiguously as "Spanish and Portuguese Jews", "Spanish Jews", "Portuguese Jews" and "Jews of the Portuguese Nation") are the community of...

Peninsula (Portugal and Spain). In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Portuguese Jews emigrated to a number of European cities outside Portugal, where...

of Sepharadi descent Benjamin Artom (1835-1879), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain Lior Ashkenazi (1969-), Israeli actor Ben Ashkenazy...

of the Portuguese Nation." The Portuguese-speaking community grew from conversos, Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in Spain and Portugal, who rejudaized...

to Spanish and Portuguese Jews who converted or were forced by the Spanish and Portuguese crowns to convert to Christianity during the fifteenth and sixteenth...

as "crypto-Jews" (origin from Greek kryptos – κρυπτός, 'hidden'). The term is especially applied historically to Spanish and Portuguese Jews who outwardly...

in 1989. The Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation of London was founded in 1657 following a petition to Oliver Cromwell from six Jews living in London...

Italy since Roman times; see below. Sephardi Jews, in particular Spanish and Portuguese Jews, i.e., Jews who arrived in Italy following their expulsion...

The history of the Jews in Latin America began with conversos who joined the Spanish and Portuguese expeditions to the continents. The Alhambra Decree...

service) Tefillat Kol Peh, ed. and tr. Ricardo: Amsterdam 1928, repr. 1950 Book of Prayer of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London (5 vols...

in the Netherlands. Some other Portuguese Jews, very few in number like the Belmonte Jews, opted for a different and radical solution, practicing their...

Portuguese Jews intermarried with other expelled Sephardim, the language influenced the nearby Judeo-Spanish. Close similarity to Standard Portuguese...

Sephardic law and customs are the law and customs of Judaism which are practiced by Sephardim or Sephardic Jews (lit. "Jews of Spain"); the descendants...

history of the Jews in Suriname starts in 1639, as the English government allowed Spanish and Portuguese Jews from the Netherlands, Portugal and Italy to settle...

Brazil to New Amsterdam. Portugal had just conquered Brazil from the Dutch Republic, and the Spanish and Portuguese Jews there promptly fled to New...

history of the Jews in Mexico began in 1519 with the arrival of Conversos, often called Marranos or "Crypto-Jews", referring to those Jews forcibly converted...

tefillot (תְּפִלּוֹת‎) among Sephardi Jews, tefillah among German Jews, and tiklāl (תכלאל) among Yemenite Jews. The earliest parts of Jewish prayer books...

The history of the Jews in Europe spans a period of over two thousand years. Jews, an Israelite tribe from Judea in the Levant, began migrating to Europe...

European-Jewish descent, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi. Madras Jews: The Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Paradesi Jews and British Jews arrived at Madras during the 16th...

spiritual charge of the congregation of "Spanish and Portuguese Jews" (Sephardim). A considerable influx of Jews made it necessary to obtain more commodious...

Jewish community in Belmonte, Portugal, dates back to the 13th century; the community was composed of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who kept their faith through...

(1901). History of the Ancient Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews: The Cathedral Synagogue of the Jews in England, Situate in Bevis Marks. A Memorial...

and Portuguese Synagogue, in New York Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam) For other Spanish and Portuguese synagogues...

mutual influence with the Judaeo-Portuguese of the Portuguese Jews. Contrast Judaeo-Spanish daínda ('still') with Portuguese ainda (Galician ainda or aínda...

in Judaeo-Spanish, the traditional Judaeo-Spanish language of Sephardi Jews. The Amsterdam Sephardic community was one of the largest and richest Jewish...

after meals according to the custom of Spanish and Portuguese Jews. It has also been traditionally sung by the Jews of Turkish descent. It is similar in...

Egyptian Jews, Persian Jews, Uzbeki Jews, Kazakh Jews, Tajik Jews, Kurdish Jews, Lebanese Jews, Syrian Jews, Turkish Jews and Iraqi Jews; as well as...

consists of the Marranos' contribution and achievement in England. Marranos were Spanish and Portuguese Jews living in the Iberian Peninsula who converted...

arrival of Sephardi Jews, expelled from Portugal and Spain. The term Musta'arabi was also used by medieval Jewish authors to refer to Jews who had traditionally...