Fan Casting Sephardi Jewish in Fictional Characters by Religion

Sepharadi Jews are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The term Sepharadim, derived from Hebrew Sefarad (lit. 'Spain'), also refers to the Mizrahi Jews of Western Asia and North Africa. Although the millennia-long established latter groups do not have ancestry from the Jewish communities of Iberia, the majority of them were influenced by the Sephardi style of liturgy, law, and customs from the influence of the Andalusian schools and Maimonides; many Iberian Jewish exiles later sought refuge in those pre-existing Jewish communities over the course of the last few centuries, resulting in their integration with those communities.