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Z Archive: 1997: Vol 12.6 NovDec 1997

Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic “Jew-ess”

By Ruth Knafo Setton | November 1, 1997

ONE: Name. Often unpronounceable, unmanageable, redolent of incense and cumin. A name that twists letters into spirals the way a djinn emerges from a lamp.

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