1. ‘Collaboration between Sephardim and Ashkenazim was limited, due to differences of language and culture.’ ‘Yet they are all there - religious and non-religious, Ashkenazim and Sephardim.’ ‘There are famous disputes, for example, between Orthodox Jews of Ashkenazi and Sephardic origin over the status of corn and rice on Passover.’

2. The saga of this family indicates that the perceived divide between Ashkenazim and Sephardim is not as wide as it seems and the distance between these two Jewish Diasporas is …

3. Ashkenazim (n.) (plural) "central and northern European Jews" (as opposed to Sephardim, the Jews of Spain and Portugal), 1839, from Hebrew Ashkenazzim, plural of Ashkenaz, eldest son of Gomer (Genesis x.3), also the name of a nation mentioned in Jeremiah li.27.

4. Jews from Muslim and Arabic countries only feature in this history timeline at the beginning of the many Aliyoth - Jewish migrations to Israel, when the two groups literally appeared on the map of a Jewish state: in British Mandate Palestine, now known as Israel.17 In reality, the “story” of the Sephardim and Mizrahim starts much earlier.