American Jewish Archives Journal, Vol 44, No. 01 (1992)

494 American Jeu pish Archives
oral literature of. See Ballads; Endechas;
Oral tradition, Sephardi
ordination among, 58,62
present state and future prospects of, 78
and Roman Catholicism, 27,68
self-governance among, 17,18,25,29,57,
58
self-image and traits of, 14,61, 174,272
Silver Age of, 25
in Spain and Portugal, g,q-30,55. See
also Spain; Portugal
and Spanish Expulsion, 58-59
in State of Israel, 67-68,303
and the Holocaust, 67
under Muslim rule, 8,14-22
under Romans and Visigoths, 8,9-14
unifying factors of, 62,64,65,66,271,281
in U.S., 67,78,174,326,357-358
Westem Diaspora of, 68. See also
Amsterdam
See also New Christians
Sephardic Resource Center, 302
Sepbardic Scholar (periodical), 284
Sephardic View International (periodical), 290
Sephardi Highlights (periodical), 302
Sephardi Jewish Community of New York
and Jewish education, 282
Sephardi studies, university courses in, 284,285
"Sephardith" (Sephardic Jewish Community of
New York ladies' auxiliary), 276
Sephardi Veterans Post, 297
Sephardi World Federation, 300
American Branch, 287,301
Serbia, Judeo-Spanish dialect of, 65
Sermons, 111,174
Sema (surname), 420
Serrano (surname), 420
Setton, Shaul, 258
Seventh-Day Adventists, 41,444
Severus (bishop of Minorca), 10
Sevilla, Simon Vaez, 215
Seville, 3637,452
composicion of, 210
Sexual morality, 391
Shaangare Yosher uamaica synagogue), 150
Sha'are Rachamim (Bordeaux synagogue), 331
Shaare Tsedek (Curacao synagogue), 148
Shaarey Tefila (New York synagogue), 78,198
Shaar Hashamayim (Belem synagogue), 242
Shaar Hashamayim (Jamaica synagogue), 150
Shabbetai, Chayyim, 218
Shanarai-Chasset (New Orleans synagogue),
172, 173
Shapiro, Ben, 41
Shavuot (Pentecost)
liturgical melodies for, 332
among Southwestern crypto-Jews, 427
Shearith Israel (Montreal synagogue), 169,170
Shearith Israel (New York synagogue), 281
and Amsterdam Jewry, 331
and Annie N. Meyer, 389
Ashkenazic members of, 167
Benjamin D. Fidanque social room, 199
clergy and officers of, 78,157,158,182,
198,203,204,274t 451
and Curacao Jewry, 158,186
and Federation of Oriental Jews of
America, 280,291
and Fidanque family, 182,198
founding of, 77,157,186,331,357
liturgy and minhag of, 157,158,159,331,
332,333,335
Mill Street building of, 157
names of, 77,158
Neighborhood House, 275,293
and other North American congregations,
78,158,1&162,167,170
and Ottoman Jewish immigrants, 274,275,
276
and proposed chief rabbinate, 280
and Sephardic Community of New York,
293
sisterhood of, 275,276
Sheba, Queen of, 99
Shebet Ajim (Cuban synagogue), 255
Sheftall, Levi, 165
Sheftall, Mordecai, 164,165
Sheftall family (Savannah), 164
Shelorno MolWlo (Kabak), 42
Shem Tov ibn Shem Tov, 22
Shepherd, Rezin, 173
She Would Be a Soldier (Noah), 385-386
Shilstone, Eustace M., 145
Shipbuilding, 73