The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews

14th century AlgJAr Arabic dialects Arabic-speaking Aramaic Ashkenazic Jews attested Balkan Judeo-Spanish Benoliel Berber and Arab Berbero-Arab Bible Biblical Hebrew Bunis Castilian Catalan Christian cited Cohen contemporary conversion to Judaism converts coterritorial customs DCECH denote derived diasporas discussion earlier in chapter early ethnic etymon example German Goitein Grecism Greek Hebraisms Hebrew and Judeo-Aramaic Iberian Arabic Iberian Jewish Iberian Jews Iberian Peninsula Ibero-Romance ibid indigenous Iraqi Islam Jewish communities Jewish languages Jews and Muslims Judaization Judeo Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Greek Judeo-Latin Judeo-Spanish Ladino language shift late latter lexicon linguistic literature Marranos meaning MorJSp Morocco Mozarabic Muslim Muslim Arabic native non-Jewish non-Jews North African North African Jews Old Hebrew origin prayer pronunciation proselytes rabbi relexified religious ritual Romance root SalJSp Semitic Sephardic Jews Sephardim Slavic Spain Spanish Spanish Arabic speakers spoken suggests surface cognates synagogue syncretistic Talmud term texts Toledo toponyms volume Wexler Yemenite Yiddish