Tag Archives: Aviva Ben-Ur

Aviva Ben-Ur es profesora asociada del Departamento de estudios judaicos y Cercano Oriente de la Universidad de Massachusetts y adjunto a los programas de español y portugués del Departamento de Historia. Obtuvo su Ph.D. de la Brandeis University (1998) y sus graduaciones M.A. y M.Phil. en la Universidad de Columbia …

A small band of Sephardim, or Jews who trace their origins to Spain and Portugal, were the first Jews to arrive in the New World. By the 1720s, these Western Sephardim were outnumbered by Ashkenazim (Jews of Germanic and Eastern European background), though they maintained religious hegemony until the turn …