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Acre, Israel
Alexandria, Egypt
Amberes
Amsterdam (The Portuguese Synagogue; became a major center for Sephardic Jews post-1581; known for trade, and finance sectors)
Amsterdam
Ankara, Turkey
Antwerp, Belgium
Assouan, Egypt
Aventura, FL, USA (Miami)
Avignon, Francia
Baghdad, Iraq
Basra, Iraq
Bayonne, France (Jewry)
Beirut, Lebanon
Benavente, Spain (Jewry)
Brazil (Salvador)
Brooklyn, New York
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cairo Egypt (Syria)
Cairo, Egypt
Casablanca. Morocco
Castille
Charleston, SC, USA (Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim)
Colombia
Constantinople (Ottoman Empire)
Córdoba, Spain
Cuba
Damascus, Syria (Syria)
Eilat, Israel
Essououira, Morocco (Then called Mogador)
Ets Haim Synagogue, Izmir, Turkey
Ettefagh School
Ferrara, Italy
Fes, Morroco
Fez, Morocco
First Shearith Israel Graveyard, Chatham Square Cemetery
Fustat (Old Cairo)
Givatayim, Israel
Gravel Lane, Houndsditch, London
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Hasbaya, Ottoman Empire
Havana, Cuba
Helouan, Egypt
Huesca, Spain
Iberian Peninsula
Isle of Terceira, Portugal (Azores)
Israel
Issac Bengualid Synagogue, Tetuan, Morocco (Mellah)
Istanbul (Estambul), Turkey (Neve Şalom Sinagogu)
Izmir, Turkey (Smyrna (Smirna))
Jerusalem, Israel
Key Biscayne, Florida
Key Biscayne, Floridaa
Kyiv, Ukraine
Leszno (Lissa) (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
Lisbon, Portugal
Livorno, Italy (Benefited from the "Livornina" decree of 1593, granting religious freedom and economic benefits; vibrant trade hub.)
London
London, UK
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lyon, France
Manissa (Ottoman Empire )
Marlboro, NY, USA (Gomez Mill House)
Meknes, Morocco
Mellah, Tetuan, Morocco
Mexico City, Mexico
Miami, FL, USA
Micanopy, FL, USA
Milas, Turkey
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Mogadouro, Portugal
Monastir, Macedonia ((Bitula))
Monastir, Macedonia (Bitula)
Monterey, Mexico (Nuevo Leon)
Montilla, Spain (Provincia de Córdoba)
Montreal, QB, Canada (The Spanish )
New Jersey, NJ, USA
New Orleans, LA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Paris, France
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Philadelphia, PA, USA (Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel)
Philippeville (Skikda)
Pinsk, Ukraine
Plantation, FL
Porto, Portugal
Ramat Gan, Israel (Salti Institute, Bar Ilan)
Ramsgate, UK
Rehovot, IL
Rome, Italy
Ruse (Rostchuck), Bulgaria
Safi, Morocco
Salamanca, Spain (La judería de Salamanca)
Salonica, Greece
San Francisco, CA, USA
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Seattle, Washington (Mangolia)
Serres, Greece (Old Synagogue of Serres)
Sinyora Synagogue, Izmir, Turkey
St. Augustine, FL, USA
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (Then Danish West Indies)
Tehran Grand Bazaar
Tehran, Iran
Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel (Nahalat Itzhak Cemetery)
Tetuan (Morocco)
The Hague, Netherlands
Thessaloniki, Greece
Tiberias, Israel
Tissint, Morocco
Toledo, Spain
Trinidad y Tobago
Tudela, Spain
Turkey
Venice
Zgierz, Poland
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Acre, Israel
Alexandria, Egypt
Amberes
Amsterdam (The Portuguese Synagogue; became a major center for Sephardic Jews post-1581; known for trade, and finance sectors)
Amsterdam
Ankara, Turkey
Antwerp, Belgium
Assouan, Egypt
Aventura, FL, USA (Miami)
Avignon, Francia
Baghdad, Iraq
Basra, Iraq
Bayonne, France (Jewry)
Beirut, Lebanon
Benavente, Spain (Jewry)
Brazil (Salvador)
Brooklyn, New York
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cairo Egypt (Syria)
Cairo, Egypt
Casablanca. Morocco
Castille
Charleston, SC, USA (Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim)
Colombia
Constantinople (Ottoman Empire)
Córdoba, Spain
Cuba
Damascus, Syria (Syria)
Eilat, Israel
Essououira, Morocco (Then called Mogador)
Ets Haim Synagogue, Izmir, Turkey
Ettefagh School
Ferrara, Italy
Fes, Morroco
Fez, Morocco
First Shearith Israel Graveyard, Chatham Square Cemetery
Fustat (Old Cairo)
Givatayim, Israel
Gravel Lane, Houndsditch, London
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Hasbaya, Ottoman Empire
Havana, Cuba
Helouan, Egypt
Huesca, Spain
Iberian Peninsula
Isle of Terceira, Portugal (Azores)
Israel
Issac Bengualid Synagogue, Tetuan, Morocco (Mellah)
Istanbul (Estambul), Turkey (Neve Şalom Sinagogu)
Izmir, Turkey (Smyrna (Smirna))
Jerusalem, Israel
Key Biscayne, Florida
Key Biscayne, Floridaa
Kyiv, Ukraine
Leszno (Lissa) (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
Lisbon, Portugal
Livorno, Italy (Benefited from the "Livornina" decree of 1593, granting religious freedom and economic benefits; vibrant trade hub.)
London
London, UK
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lyon, France
Manissa (Ottoman Empire )
Marlboro, NY, USA (Gomez Mill House)
Meknes, Morocco
Mellah, Tetuan, Morocco
Mexico City, Mexico
Miami, FL, USA
Micanopy, FL, USA
Milas, Turkey
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Mogadouro, Portugal
Monastir, Macedonia ((Bitula))
Monastir, Macedonia (Bitula)
Monterey, Mexico (Nuevo Leon)
Montilla, Spain (Provincia de Córdoba)
Montreal, QB, Canada (The Spanish )
New Jersey, NJ, USA
New Orleans, LA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Paris, France
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Philadelphia, PA, USA (Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel)
Philippeville (Skikda)
Pinsk, Ukraine
Plantation, FL
Porto, Portugal
Ramat Gan, Israel (Salti Institute, Bar Ilan)
Ramsgate, UK
Rehovot, IL
Rome, Italy
Ruse (Rostchuck), Bulgaria
Safi, Morocco
Salamanca, Spain (La judería de Salamanca)
Salonica, Greece
San Francisco, CA, USA
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Seattle, Washington (Mangolia)
Serres, Greece (Old Synagogue of Serres)
Sinyora Synagogue, Izmir, Turkey
St. Augustine, FL, USA
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (Then Danish West Indies)
Tehran Grand Bazaar
Tehran, Iran
Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel (Nahalat Itzhak Cemetery)
Tetuan (Morocco)
The Hague, Netherlands
Thessaloniki, Greece
Tiberias, Israel
Tissint, Morocco
Toledo, Spain
Trinidad y Tobago
Tudela, Spain
Turkey
Venice
Zgierz, Poland
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Iraqi entrepreneur, and community member
A Casablanca-born Jewish pharmacist who migrated from Morocco to France, Venezuela, and then Canada
A Franco-Sephardic poet who preserved Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) through her bilingual poetry. She is best known for evoking exile, memory, and maternal heritage in her lyrical reconstruction of Sephardic identity.
A Portuguese noble, military captain, and conquistador who explored northern Mexico. He founded Monterey, Mexico.
A quiet, religious, mother and homemaker
Algerian Jewish community member in Paris
Author, editor, and publisher of La Vara
Being the oldest nurse in Rehovot, IL
Bridges migration, entrepreneurship, and community service in Montreal
Brilliant 19th‑century lawyer and politician: after serving as a U.S. senator from Louisiana, he became a key member of Jefferson Davis’s Confederate cabinet.
British financier and philanthropist; built hospitals and schools; championed Jewish rights worldwide
Building an enduring Sephardic rabbinic, communal, and intellectual legacy over five centuries — migrating from the Ottoman world to Western Europe, and from the Caribbean to South America.
Calligrapher, Printer, and Publisher
Chief surgeon of the Portuguese court
Commitment to the Sephardic diaspora, community support, and aiding Holocaust
Community Member
Crypto-Jew reverted back to Judaism
Distinguished Rabbinic Lineage
Distinguished Sephardic family noted for commercial diplomacy, rabbinical leadership, slave mediation in North Africa, and contributions to Jewish communities in Amsterdam, London, and the Caribbean.
Distinguished Sephardic family noted for commercial diplomacy, rabbinical leadership, slave mediation in North Africa, and contributions to Jewish communities in Amsterdam, London, and the Caribbean.
Doctor, Historian, Translator of prayer books
Early free settler of New South Wales
Established the first Kibbutz in Florida
Extensive 12th-century travelogue documenting Jewish communities across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
Famous converso
Founder and editor of La América
Founder of Multimillion dollar Schinassi Brothers Tobacco Empire
Founder of Nuevo León, colonial leader, and central figure in major converso trials in New Spain. Complex identity struggle as converso. Dual identity
Founding and editing La America, the 1st enduring Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) weekly newspaper in the US (NY, 1910–1925), aimed at uniting and guiding Sephardic Jewish immigrants socially and culturally
Interactions with both the Christian and Muslim communities
Iraqi community member, and hairdresser
Jewish-American painter and photographer; documented Western expansion with the Frémont expedition.
Known for its rabbinic legacy, culminating in Rabbi David Danino, “the Prophet”
Ladino-language journalist and advocate for Sephardic immigrant identity in early 20th-century New York.
Merchant. Migrated from Morocco to the US. Tried to establish the first Kibbutz in Florida. Father of David Yulee, first senator to the state of FL
Mestre Afonso
Migration from Iraq to the US
Moroccan Jewish diplomat, merchant, and privateer. Known for negotiating the 1610 Treaty of Friendship between Morocco and the Dutch Republic
Moroccan Jewish merchant and son of Mogadorean Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva, Moses Buzaglo
Moses Maimonides was a classic Jewish thinker who wrote a thorough guide for Halacha and a book about faith vs. reason, while also working as a doctor in Egypt.
Moses Maimonides was a medieval Jewish thinker who wrote a clear, all-in-one rulebook for Jewish law and a big-ideas book about faith vs. reason—while also working as a top doctor in Egypt.
One of the earliest Jewish authors to integrate geographic and cosmographic knowledge into Hebrew literature
Poems
Preserving and promoting Judeo-Spanish culture through journalism, literature, satire, and radio broadcasting in Israel.
Prominent Sephardic merchant and diplomatic family active in Morocco from the 16th century onward
Prominent Sephardic merchant; built the Gomez Mill House, the oldest standing Jewish dwelling in North America.
Rabbi, businessman, lawyer, social activist, and denier of the Armenian genocide
Resilient North African Sephardi whose Constantine-to-France journey and work as an orthophoniste embody Jewish continuity and courage.
Sephardi financier; facilitated the safety of conversos who were being persecuted by Spanish Empire and established resettlement projects for them.
Sephardic Cuisine
Sephardic Jewish businesswoman, philanthropist, and political figure.
Sephardic Jewish merchant-broker who mobilized crucial credit for the Continental Congress and French forces during the American Revolution
Sephardic philanthropist, industrialist, Zionist organizer, and cultural preservationist. Founder of the Salti Foundation and the Salti Institute for Ladino Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
Sephardic Singer
Served as the translator for Christopher Columbus
Spanish Jewish poet and philosopher, wrote the Kuzari, widely regarded as one of the great Hebrew Poets.
The oldest grave in the United States
The preservation and poetic revitalization of Ladino memory through diasporic language and loss. A journey shaped by exile, silence, and the embodied language of ancestry.
The Teixeira-Fernandes Family: From Porto to Brazil, Tuscany, and Beyond (1497–1640). Literary contributions (Bento Teixeira’s Prosopopeia), mercantile networks, and complex religious identities leading to connections with Amsterdam’s Sephardic community.
Tobacco Merchant
Wealth and influence in Renaissance Europe; escape network for conversos
Western Sephardi U.S. naval officer and reformer (first Jewish commodore), preserver of Monticello, and donor of the Thomas Jefferson statue to the U.S. Capitol.
Writer, Historian, Educator, Journalist
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