Friday, 4 July 2014

Sephardic Jews hope to return to Spain



Those
applying for nationality will have to submit proof of their historic
ties to Spain: the language spoken by their family, for instance, their
surname, or a certificate from Jewish authorities in Spain. The
government expects up to 150,000 people around the world to seek Spanish
nationality through the scheme.

With this initiative a circle has been closed.


Isaac Querub, Spanish Federation of Jewish Communities
The
expulsion of 1492 was an attempt by Spain's monarchs, King Fernando and
Queen Isabel, to create a homogenous Catholic country. Vicente Alvarez,
a medieval historian at Madrid's Autonoma University, said that
conversion, rather than expulsion, was the initial aim.
Sephardic Jews hope to return to Spain - Features - Al Jazeera English

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