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Union of Sephardic Congregations

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Founded 1929 to "promote religious interests of Sephardic Jews." From the description of Records, 1932-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155471322 The Union of Sephardic Congregations was established in 1929 by leaders of Sephardic communities in America to promote the religious interests of Sephardic Jews. Its primary aim was to give cohesion and the strength of union to the scattered and comparatively weak congregational units of the Sephardim. It also assi...

Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America

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Founded 1942 as Federation of Sephardic Organizations. From the description of Records, 1942-1971, 1942-1962 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155470971 The Sephardi immigrants coming to the United States during the early part of the twentieth century developed a strong yearning for a central body along the lines of the communities they knew in their old hometowns. It took the arrival in 1941 of Dr. Nissim J. Ovadia, former Chief Rabbi of Paris, to unite all...

World Sephardi Federation

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Formed 1951 by merger of Union Universelle des Communautes Sephardites (ca. 1925) and World Federation of Sephardi Communities (1944). From the description of Records, 1926-1975, 1945-1975 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155471348 The World Sephardi Federation (WSF) was founded in 1925 at the international convention of Sephardi Jews held in Vienna, prior to the 14th Zionist Congress. The initiative behind its establishment came from the heads of the Sepha...