10 American Cities Where Sephardic Jews Built a World Most Americans Never See

The Hidden Jewish America You Never Knew Existed

Beyond the delis and bagels lies a parallel Jewish world hiding in plain sight. Beachfront mansions. Ancient synagogues. A medieval language still spoken on American streets. This video traces ten cities where Sephardic Jews—descendants of exiles from Spain and Portugal—built communities most Americans have never heard of. From colonial Newport to the multimillion-dollar enclaves of New Jersey, discover the other Jewish America.

Further Reading & Resources:

Congregation Shearith Israel – Official History Archives

Touro Synagogue National Historic Site Documentation

University of Washington Sephardic Studies Digital Collection

"Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience" – Library of Congress

Congregation Mickve Israel – Historical Records

"A History of the Jews in America" – Howard M. Sachar

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim – Charleston Jewish Archives

"Jews of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic" – Stanford Shaw

Iranian Jewish Oral History Project – UCLA

American Jewish Historical Society Collections

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