quick question on sephardic jews hello all i'm not a jewish person but have a great deal of interest in both israel judaism and have doubts as to the meaning of sephardic jew wikipedia other i net resources have given me the definition most of you will know from iberian peninsula emigrating to the mediteranean region etc but what raised my doubts is something else i recently saw a documentary which claimed that sephardic jews originated from a tribe in a land adjacent to israel in the north though i forgot its ancient name the king leader of this tribe was deeply impressed with his jewish neighbours and converted himself as well as all his people to judaism i can find nothing to back this up and would love any imput you're wishing to provide thank you all hayden