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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 12659287, member: 2844&quot;]They did, in fact Sephardic refugees were the first large Jewish community in The Netherlands, followed by poor Ashkenazim who had no chance of (socio-)economic opportunities in the German and Polish lands.</p><p>There are a few words of Portuguese origin in Dutch, introduced by the Sephardim, and some of the Hebrew words could have come through them as well. But I guess there are more Yiddish words because the Ashkenazic community was much bigger.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many Sephardim left the Netherlands again to set up plantations in the Dutch West Indies, which meant there were fewer left in the Netherlands. They had more money than the Ashkenazim and saw the plantations as a good business opportunity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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