Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants : : Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal / / ed. by Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti.

• MitwirkendeR: Aliberti, Davide,; Allard, Elisabeth Bolorinos,; Aragoneses, Alfons,; Arigita, Elena,; Behar, Ruth,; Benmayor, Rina,; Bento, Heraldo,; Capriles, Colette,; Côrte-Real Pinto, Gabriela Anouck,; David, Isabel,; Ender, Rita,; Flesler, Daniela,; Friedman, Michal Rose,; Galián, Laura,; Kandiyoti, Dalia,; McDonald, Charles A.,; Naar, Devin E.,; Pignatelli, Marina,; Santos, Teresa,; Silverman, Victor,; Özüyener, Uluç,
• HerausgeberIn: Benmayor, Rina,; Kandiyoti, Dalia,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Remapping Cultural History ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation for Jews who were forced to undergo conversions or expelled from Iberia nearly half a millennia ago. Drawing on the memory of the expulsion from Sepharad, the scholarly and personal essays in Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyze the impact ofreconciliation laws on descendants andcontemporary forms of citizenship.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sephardi Jews, Citizenship, and Reparation in Historical Context -- Part I. Reparation and Reconciliation? Legal and Political Perspectives on the 2015 Laws -- Chapter 1 “Reparative Citizenship” Confronting Injustices of the Past or Building Modern Nationalisms? -- Chapter 2 Beyond Reparatory Justice: The Portuguese “Law of Return” as Nation Branding -- Chapter 3 Reparations in Spanish Parliamentary Debates about the 2015 Nationality Law for Descendants of Sephardi Jews -- Chapter 4 Personal Essay: Passport to the Past, Passport to the Future -- Part II. Roots of “Returns” Early Uses of Jewish and Muslim History -- Chapter 5 “Spaniards We Were, Spaniards We Are, and Spaniards We Will Be” Salonica’s Sephardic Jews and the Instrumentalization of the Spanish Past, 1898–1944 -- Chapter 6 “Spanish Jews” and “Friendly Muslims” The Historical Absence of a Citizenship Campaign for Muslims of Iberian Descent -- Chapter 7 Personal Essay: The Story of a Spanish Dönme -- Part III. Negotiating the Present. Between States and Official Communities -- Chapter 8 Moriscos-Andalusíes: Historical Reparation, Reconciliation, and the Duty of Memory -- Chapter 9 Negotiating Historical Redress: The Spanish Law of Nationality for Sephardi Descendants and Spain’s Jewish Communities -- Chapter 10 Personal Essay “Congratulations, You Are Portuguese!” Reflections on Identity and Nationality -- Chapter 11 Personal Essay: Sefarad Postponed -- Part IV. Sephardi Descendants. Emotions, Identities, and Bureaucracies -- Chapter 12 “La Nostalgia de Sefarad Tira Mucho, Pero No Tanto” Attachment, Sentiment, and the Ethics of Refusal -- Chapter 13 Affective Citizenship and Iberian Sephardi Descendants -- Chapter 14 Descendants of Conversos in the Americas: The Ancestral Past, Sephardi Identity, and Citizenship in Spain and Portugal -- Chapter 15 Portuguese Citizenship for Brazilian Descendants of Sephardic Jews: A Netnography -- Chapter 15 Appendix Certifying Origins for Sephardic Descendants in Portugal: A Snapshot of the Evaluation Process -- Chapter 16 Personal Essay: The Fez in the Water—Exile and Return -- Coda: Directions in Citizenship and Historical Repair -- Index