On an Interesting Note:

On ChabadTalk there's a thread listing famous Ashkenazi families with Sefardic roots, including:

Rapaport

Halevi-Horowitz

Abarbanel (Eastern Europe)

Don-Yichye/Ben Yichye/ Ser/Charlap

Wein (Lithuania)

Halevi-Epstein (Lithuania)

Portugal (Skulener Romania)

Peretz (Zamocz, Poland. Famous Yiddish writer Y. Leib Peretz was a Sephardi!)

Chen family of Russia [Originally Gracia -Mottel] (Chabad).

-I've since added Ha-Historion to my Blogroll -check him out.

Minor Fast Days points out the BBC's article on Poles discover their Jewish roots


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