Non­fic­tion

Sephardic Jews in Amer­i­ca: A Dias­poric History

Avi­va Ben-Ur
  • From the Publisher
October 11, 2011
A sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of Sephardic Jews, trac­ing their remote ori­gins to Spain and Por­tu­gal, immi­grat­ed to the Unit­ed States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balka­ns from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a small­er num­ber of Mizrahi Jews arriv­ing from Arab lands. Most Sephardim set­tled in New York, estab­lish­ing the lead­ing Judeo-Span­ish com­mu­ni­ty out­side the Ottoman Empire. Draw­ing on pri­ma­ry sources such as the Ladi­no (Judeo-Span­ish) press, archival doc­u­ments, and oral his­to­ries, Sephardic Jews in Amer­i­ca offers an aca­d­e­m­ic treat­ment of their his­to­ry in the Unit­ed States, from 1654 to the present, focus­ing on the age of mass immigration.

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