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More fittingly, Gerchunoff and other Ashkenazim also identified Sephardi Jews with Spanish culture and aristocratic features. Los gauchos judíos referred to the Moroccan Moisés Urquijo de Albinoim, father of a JCA teacher. An erudite heir of the "Talmudists of the Spanish Golden Age," he represented the
"Jews who continued the tradition of the great sages of Jerusalem under the kings of Castile. " Ruth, the purported Ashkenazi columnist for Israel, praised a Sephardi acquaintance for having the "sparkling loquacity of an Andaluz" and another Sephardi gentleman's "noble pride."