In 1654, the Jews of Sephardic origin, immigrating to the United States, ________.

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In 1654, a group of Sephardic Jews arrived in New Amsterdam (later becoming New York) as refugees fleeing religious persecution in Brazil, which was then a colony of Portugal. They were not explorers seeking new lands, religious preachers or refugees from the Holocaust in Germany, as that did not occur until centuries later.

In 1654, the Jews of Sephardic Origin, Immigrating to the United