Follow them from Iberia to Morocco to Palestine and even Angola, and find branches that returned to Gibraltar and Portugal.
Learn about the Benveniste name and ancestors, and read articles about Ladino and Sephardim, with an emphasis on crypto Jews.
Explore the differences between the Northern and Eastern European Jews who speak Yiddish and the Mediterranean ones who speak Ladino.
Background and a bibliography concerning the large numbers of secret Jews who left Portugal to colonize Brazil. Also in Portuguese.
University's Jewish Studies program offers this list of sites that relate to Sephardic communities.
Explore details about the congregation and its 2,700-year-old culture. Link to its calendar, recipes, articles, photos and a bulletin board.
Access texts about their origins, culture, religion, customs, quarters, synagogues and expulsion from Spain.
Trace their history from ancient Babylonia to the US. Learn about Iraqi leaders and link to related American communities.
Arthur Benveniste compares the Ladino he grew up speaking in Los Angeles with both contemporary and medieval Spanish.
Learn how Malka can mean both queen and king, and trace family members throughout the Mediterranean. Link to genealogy resources.
Sephardi heritage resource for developing leadership offers info on laws and customs. Link to videos of celebrations and speeches.
Background on the role played by these Sephardim in the rubber trade. Scan the common names of the immigrants, and access a bibliography.
Offers the history of the family named Ottolenghi, Ottolangui or Langley, an abbreviated tree and an archive. In English, Italian and Spanish.
Access pages about the history, classes, groups and administration of this Spanish-Portuguese congregation founded in 1740. Includes a calendar.
Access aural, visual and written cultural documents, plus links to magazine subscriptions and Belgian Sephardic communities.
Chronicles the culture of the prosperous era that began with the Moorish conquest in 711 and ended with the Christian expulsion of Jews in 1492.
Find out who they are, notes on their version of Orthodox Judaism, a glossary of key terms and sections on their tenure in Spain and elsewhere.
Learn about Jamaican Jewish history, genealogy and synagogues, as well as Spanish and Portuguese Jewish liturgical music.
Dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Congregation in Curacao. Highlights its history and projects.
Read an account of Sephardic life in the Congo and see some photographs. Includes access to a forum.