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The Jewish community in Rhodes was most affected within the last 500 years by the influx of Jews from Spain, who fled at the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Their descendants are referred to as Sephardic Jews, derived from “Sepharad”, the Hebrew word for Spain. These Jews brought with them their culture, their customs and traditions, one amongst the cultural aspects was linguistic, the language they spoke was Espanyol, as they called it, also referred to as a Ladino and “Judeo-Spanish”. The Jewish Quarter of the mediaeval town was affectionately known as “La Juderia”.