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Spinoza was, indeed, a Sephardic Jew, as is Yaacov, to the best of my knowledge. The woman who wrote the poem for the Statue of Liberty, Emma Lazarus, was also Sephardic, by way of Great Britain. Most of the Jewish settlers in the colonial and early Federalist period were Sephardim, either from Holland or England. The next big wave was in the middle of the 19th century, from Germany. The last big wave of Jewish immigration was the one my great- grandparent arrived in, around the turn of the century, from Eastern Europe. My people came from Latvia... |
