Sefardim
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 2,200,000 up to 16% of world Jewish population |
|
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Israel
|
1.4 million |
 France
|
300,000–400,000 |
 United States
|
200,000–300,000 |
 Argentina
|
50,000 |
 Spain
|
40,000 |
 Canada
|
30,000 |
 Turkey
|
26,000 |
 Italy
|
24,930 |
 Mexico
|
15,000 |
 United Kingdom
|
8,000 |
 Panama
|
8,000 |
 Colombia
|
7,000 |
 Morocco
|
6,000 |
 Greece
|
6,000 |
 Tunisia
|
2,000 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
2,000 |
 Bulgaria
|
2,000 |
 Cuba
|
1,500 |
 Serbia
|
1,000 |
 Netherlands
|
600 |
 Macedonia
|
200 |
| Languages | |
| Historical: Ladino, Arabic, Haketia, Judeo-Portuguese, Berber, Catalanic, Shuadit, local languages Modern: Local languages, primarily Hebrew, French, English, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, Italian, Ladino, Arabic. |
|
| Religion | |
| Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, other Jewish ethnic divisions, Samaritans, other Levantines, Assyrians, other Near Eastern Semitic people, Spaniards, Portuguese and Hispanics/Latinos | |
Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or simply Sephardim, (Hebrew: סְפָרַדִּים, Modern Hebrew: Sfaraddim, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm; also יְהוּדֵי סְפָרַד Y'hudey Spharad, lit. "The Jews of Spain"), are a Jewish ethnic division whose ethnogenesis and emergence as a distinct community of Jews coalesced on the Iberian Peninsula around the year 1000. They established communities throughout Spain and Portugal, where they traditionally resided, evolving what would become their distinctive characteristics and diasporic identity, which they took with them in their exile from Iberia beginning in the late 15th century to North Africa, Anatolia, the Levant, the Balkans, the Baltics, Central, Southern and Northern Europe, as well as the Americas, and all other places of their exiled settlement, either alongside pre-existing co-religionists, or alone as the first Jews in new frontiers.
Their millennial residence as an open and organised Jewish community in Iberia was brought to an end starting with the Alhambra Decree by Spain's Catholic Monarchs in 1492, which resulted in a combination of internal and external migrations, mass conversions and executions.
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