Overview

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 of reconciliation laws on descendants and contemporary forms of citizenship.

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Author:   Dalia Kandiyoti ,  Rina Benmayor
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   16
ISBN:  

9781800738249

ISBN 10:   1800738242
Pages:   343
Publication Date:   13 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Sephardi Jews, Citizenship, and Reparation in Historical Context Dalia Kandiyoti and Rina Benmayor 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? Alfons Aragoneses Chapter 2. Beyond Reparatory Justice: The Portuguese Law of Return as Nation Branding Isabel David and Gabriela Anouck Corte-Real Pinto Chapter 3. Reparations in Spanish Parliamentary Debates about the 2015 Nationality Law for Descendants of Sephardi Jews Davide Aliberti Chapter 4. Personal Essay: Passport to the Past, Passport to the Future Colette Capriles 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 Devin E. Naar Chapter 6. Spanish Jews and Friendly Muslims : The Historical Absence of a Citizenship Campaign for Muslims of Iberian Descent Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard Chapter 7. Personal Essay: The Story of a Spanish Doenme Uluc OEzuyener Part III: Negotiating the Present: Between States and Official Communities Chapter 8. Moriscos Andalusies: Historical Reparation, Reconciliation, and the Duty of Memory Elena Arigita and Laura Galian Chapter 9. Negotiating Historical Redress: The Spanish Law of Nationality for Sephardi Descendants and Spain's Jewish Communities Daniela Flesler and Michal Rose Friedman Chapter 10. Personal Essay: Congratulations, You Are Portuguese! Reflections on Identity and Nationality Rita Ender Chapter 11. Personal Essay: Sefarad Postponed Ruth Behar 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 Charles A. McDonald Chapter 13. Affective Citizenship and Iberian Sephardi Descendants Rina Benmayor Chapter 14. Descendants of Conversos in the Americas: The Ancestral Past, Sephardi Identity, and Citizenship in Spain and Portugal Dalia Kandiyoti Chapter 15. Portuguese Citizenship for Brazilian Descendants of Sephardic Jews: A Netnography Marina Pignatelli Appendix: Certifying Origins for Sephardic Descendants in Portugal: A Snapshot of the Evaluation Process Teresa Santos and Heraldo Bento Chapter 16. Personal Essay: The Fez in the Water-Exile and Return Victor Silverman Coda: Directions in Citizenship and Historical Repair Dalia Kandiyoti and Rina Benmayor Index

Reviews

Kandiyoti and Benmayor's volume brings together the legal and emotional repercussions of a return to Spain and Portugal for Sephardic Jews. Beautifully intermingling questions of expulsion, exclusion and reparation, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants treats readers to a nuanced and multifaceted examination of Sephardim. By melding personal essays with rigorous academic studies, the editors have compiled a book that speaks to the heart and mind while addressing the discomfiting realities of an invitation six hundred years in the making. * Sara J. Brenneis, Amherst College

Author Information

Rina Benmayor is Professor Emerita in the School of Humanities and Communication, California State University Monterey Bay, where she taught oral history, literature, and digital storytelling. Her books include Romances Judeo-Españoles de Oriente (on Sephardic ballads); Latino Cultural Citizenship, Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios; and Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation, on oral history in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

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