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Re: Jewish/Italian crossover
- From: Joe Kurland & Peggy Davis <ganeydn...>
- Subject: Re: Jewish/Italian crossover
- Date: Fri 24 Sep 1999 03.10 (GMT)
>Maybe he was Jewish and Italian....it's called being sepharidic and there
>are some of us out there.
>Trudi the G
Not all Italian Jews are Sephardic--they go back as far as the Roman
destruction of the Temple. Each city with a Jewish community had it's own
dialect of Judeo-Italian, its own customs.
Peggy
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