Editing Sephardic Jews (section)

=== Narrow ethnic definition ===
In the narrower ethnic definition, a Sephardic Jew is one descended from the Jews who lived in the [[Iberian Peninsula]] in the late 15th century, immediately prior to the issuance of the [[Alhambra Decree]] of 1492 by order of the [[Catholic Monarchs]] in Spain, and the [[Expulsion of the Jews from Portugal|decree of 1496]] in [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] by order of [[Manuel I of Portugal|King Manuel I]].

In Hebrew, the term "Sephardim Tehorim" ({{Script/Hebrew|ספרדים טהורים}}, literally "Pure Sephardim"), derived from a misunderstanding of the initials ס"ט "Samekh Tet" traditionally used with some proper names (which stand for ''sofo tov'', "may his end be good" or "sin v'tin", "mire and mud"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://seforim.blogspot.com/2007/09/marc-shapiro-what-do-adon-olam-and-mean.html|title=the Seforim blog: Marc Shapiro: What Do Adon Olam and ס"ט Mean?|first=Dan|last=Rabinowitz|date=4 September 2007|access-date=15 October 2018|archive-date=4 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004121113/http://seforim.blogspot.com/2007/09/marc-shapiro-what-do-adon-olam-and-mean.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Azoulay |first1=Yehuda |title=A Legend Of Greatness |publisher=Israel Bookshop |page=24; in footnote}}</ref> has in recent times been used in some quarters to distinguish Sephardim proper, "who trace their lineage back to the Iberian/Spanish population", from Sephardim in the broader religious sense.<ref>Mintz, Alan L. ''The Boom in Contemporary Israeli Fiction.'' University Press of New England (Hanover, NH, USA). 1997. p115</ref> This distinction has also been made in reference to 21st-century genetic findings in research on 'Pure Sephardim', in contrast to other communities of Jews today who are part of the broad classification of Sephardi.<ref>{{cite web |year=2011 |title='Pure Sephardim' liable to carry mutation for cancer |publisher=Jpost.com |url=http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Pure-Sephardim-liable-to-carry-mutation-for-cancer |access-date=7 May 2014 |archive-date=8 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508025019/http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Pure-Sephardim-liable-to-carry-mutation-for-cancer |url-status=live }}</ref>

Ethnic Sephardic Jews have had a presence in North Africa and various parts of the Mediterranean and Western Asia due to their expulsion from Spain. There have also been Sephardic communities in South America and India.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

==== Katalanim ====
Originally the Jews spoke of Sefarad referring to [[Al-Andalus]]<ref>{{cite web|access-date=16 November 2022|language=es|publisher=Diccionario etimológico castellano en linea|title=Etimologia de Sefardí|url=http://etimologias.dechile.net/?sefardi.-}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> and not the entire peninsula, nor as it is understood today, in which the term Sefarad is used in modern Hebrew to refer to Spain.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=16 November 2022|language=es|newspaper=El País|title=El traductor que convirtió Sefarad en España|date=14 April 2017 |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/04/04/actualidad/1491318007_654549.html |last1=Pita |first1=Antonio }}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> This has caused a long misunderstanding, since traditionally the entire Iberian Diaspora has been included in a single group. But the historiographical research reveals that that word, seen as homogeneous, was actually divided into distinct groups: the Sephardim, coming from the countries of the [[Crown of Castile|Castilian crown]], Castilian language speakers, and the {{ill|Katalanim|ca}} / Katalaní, originally from the [[Crown of Aragon]], [[Judaeo-Catalan|Judeo-Catalan]] speakers.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Miralles i Monserrat|last2=Massot i Muntaner|date=2001|isbn=978-84-8415-309-2|first1=Joan|first2=Josep|pages=90–91|title=Entorn de la història de la llengua|publisher=L'Abadia de Montserrat |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yHGvqM2ECY8C&dq=Judeocatal%C3%A0&pg=PA91}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=2016|first=Nicolo|last=Bucaria|title=Sicilia antiqua: International Journal of Archaeology : XIII. Ebrei catalani nel Regno di Sicilia (XIII-XV sec :)|url=https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/3187106|work=Fabrizio Serra Editore}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2022|publisher=El Nacional|title=Quan a l'Imperi otomà es parlava català|url=https://www.elnacional.cat/ca/opinio/marc-pons-imperi-otoma-parlava-catala_714036_102.html}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref>Pons, Marc, ''La diáspora judeocatalana: ¿sefardíes o katalanim?'' eSefarad. 2021. https://esefarad.com/?p=108306</ref>