Reply To: Ashkenaz & Sephardic Marriages?

I’ve gathered documentary and genetic evidence for mixed Ashkenazic+Sephardic marriages that took place in the 1500s-1700s in central and eastern Europe. “Ashkenazic” families with such names as Algazy, Alba, Sfard, and Portugeyz attest to this, as do genetic matches between Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and Converso descendants. My first two articles on the subject are “Sephardic Jews in Galitzian Poland and Environs” in Toronto’s Shem Tov newsletter (Sept. 2015) and “Sephardic Jews in Lithuania and Latvia” in Shem Tov (March and June 2016). That’s only part of the story because Sephardim also had a presence in other majority Ashkenazic regions including Bessarabia, Belarus, Germany, Slovakia, and Hungary.