Iberian Music

Migration beginning in the eighteenth century included Jewish settlers of Iberian ancestry, many of whom migrated to cities in the United States and Canada after first having lived in the Netherlands, Cuba, or elsewhere outside the Peninsula [see Jewish Music, p. 933]. The Sephardim, as these Iberian Jews were known (from Sefarad, Hebrew for Spain), brought with them music and poetry distinguished by long-standing connections with Arabic forms and featuring the Ladino language (a mixture...