Much of the writing on Jewish history has focused on the complex experience of Ashkenazi Jews, their achievements as well as the discrimination and persecution mounted against them. For generations, Ashkenazi Jews constituted about three-quarters of Jews worldwide. Concentrated mostly in Eastern and Central Europe, Ashkenazi Jews made a remarkable and highly disproportionate contribution to European and world culture and civilization. The group, some speaking Yiddish as their main language, was the dominant element of European Jewish life until the Holocaust. Less known is the history of those Jews known as Sephardim, and it is valuable to be made more aware of their story and fate. Sephardim are those Jews who from an ethnic point of view descended from Jews who had lived in the Iberian Peninsula, until they were expelled from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1496. Many of the descendants, speaking a language usually known as Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, based on Castilian elements...(Read Full Article)