Sephardic Jews living in Goa, many of whom had fled the Iberian
Peninsula to escape the excesses of the Spanish Inquisition to begin with, were also persecuted.
As the Iberian peninsula expelled Jews from their region, the Sephardic Jews went into a widespread diaspora,
but with antisemitism not limited to the Spanish, they didn't have many places to go.
This son of merchants, born in Thessaloniki, where much of the Sephardic exodus took refuge,
after his expulsion from Spain in the fifteenth century, managed to popularize in the United States and Europe a product, yogurt, which until then was virtually unknown In this part of the world.