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Sepharad means "Spain" in modern [[Hebrew]]. In religion, the Sephardic style of liturgy is different to the [[Ashkenazi|Ashkenazim]]'s one (Jews of the German rite).
Sepharad means "Spain" in modern [[Hebrew]]. In religion, the Sephardic style of liturgy is different to the [[Ashkenazi|Ashkenazim]]'s one (Jews of the German rite).
==Origin and History==
The 1492 A.D. exile from Spain, where the Jews had previously settled in the time of the Moors and some attaining to high positions and appointments as physicians, prime ministers, and poets under the Islamic conquest. This was the Golden Age of Jewry in Spain. At their expulsion ("gerush") from Spain they settled mainly around the Mediterranean basin - North Africa, Greece, Turkey, and also many going to Holland and from there to the American Colonies. The first synagogue in America was created due to this dispersion. These Jews soon were speaking the language of the their host countries - Arabic, Turkish etc. but also speaking the language of Old Spain. "Spain" in Hebrew is Sefarad, so the language is Sephardic and the dispersion is of the Sephardim (sometimes spelled Sepharadim).
== See also ==
== See also ==