Posted by: el viajero
Sephardic Jews and emigration - 11/13/02 04:52 PM
From the "Franco" thread:
I understand that a version of this law is still on the books. I wonder how Sephardic one has to be to qualify. Must all four grandparents be Sephardim? Two? One?
This law and similar attempts at making up for past wrongs -- such as Spain's granting political asylum to Russian Jewish refugees circa 1890s-1900s -- are utterly intriguing. When the history of Jews in Spain is told, one usually hears about the golden era pre-1400s, then the Inquisition, then nothing. These later stories are somehow lost in the shuffle.
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The Spanish government decreed in 1924 that any Sephardic Jew in the world was entitled to Spanish citizenship upon request.
This law and similar attempts at making up for past wrongs -- such as Spain's granting political asylum to Russian Jewish refugees circa 1890s-1900s -- are utterly intriguing. When the history of Jews in Spain is told, one usually hears about the golden era pre-1400s, then the Inquisition, then nothing. These later stories are somehow lost in the shuffle.