traditions of Jews from Spain, France, North Africa, Arab, and Oriental countries
Jews of Spanish, Portuguese and North African descent
(from the ancient Biblical name "Sepharad", which came to be associated with Spain.) Pertaining to Jews whose ancestors came from Spain and Portugal before the expulsion of the Jews from those lands in 1492-1497.
A Jew from Spain, Africa, Asia, Southern France, Yugoslavia, Greece or Turkey, or a Jew descended from such a Jew.
branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal and later in the Balkans, the Levant, England, the Netherlands, and the Americas. Sephardic Jews have slightly different dietary laws than Ashkenazi Jews.
Jews (s'-FAHR-dic) Jews from Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East and their descendants.