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Abstract
The exhibit is part of "The Sephardic Experience, 1492-1992," a series of videos, concerts and lectures at the center, and at colleges and synagogues throughout the state, tracing the history of Sephardic Jews.
About 200,000 Jews scattered to kingdoms around the Mediterranean. They re-established Sephardic customs of romantic guitar music, synagogue practices with different Hebrew pronunciations, prayer chanting and melodies, and for some even a language, Ladino -- a mix of medieval Castilian, Hebrew and Balkan tongues that [Henry Levy] still speaks.
Queens has a dozen Sephardic synagogues; Boston has two. But the approximately 100 families of Sephardic descent living in Connecticut gather at Emmanuel Synagogue in West Hartford once a year during the High Holy Days for their special service, [Mitchell Serels] said.