Ashkenazi
Ladino is a variant of medieval Spanish, intermixed with Hebrew and is spoken by many Sephardi Jews.
In the Sephardi community, boys wear a tallit from bar mitzvah age.
He is Sephardi, but without familial memory of Europe.
Sephardi
noun[ C ]
(alsoSefardiplural
Sefardim)uk /səˈfɑː.di/ us /səˈfɑːr.di/plural
Sephardimsomeone who belongs to the group of Jews who came from Spain or Portugal, or North Africa :
Some Sefardim do not mix fish and dairy.
CompareAshkenazi
Today most Jews are the descendants of either the Ashkenazim or the Sephardim, each with their marked cultural differences.
Most of the Sephardim arrived after the peninsula fell under Roman control in the second century BC.