The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews

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Max Weinreich, the eminent Yiddishist, was so impressed with the expulsion edicts that he proposed distinguishing between two periods in Sephardic history — "Sepharad I" (from the earliest settlements up to 1492), and "Sepharad II" (the  ...

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Based on the premise that Jewish languages such as Judeo- Arabic, Ladino, and Yiddish offer crucial clues to ethnic origins, Wexler (linguistics, Tel-Aviv U.) challenges the prevailing view that Sephardic Jewry originated in Spain, asserting that they were in fact descended from Berber proselytes. The author finds remnants of this North African Berber and Arab substrate in the language and culture of the Sephardic Jews and presents an array of linguistic (as well as historical, literary, and ethnographic) data in support of his hypothesis. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

^ Paul Wexler (2012). The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews ISBN 9781438423937 (revised Jun 2016)