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Right to Return To Spain - for Sephardic Jews

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Right to Return To Spain - for Sephardic Jews

Post by plt22 » Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:33 pm

I just read that in 'wikipedia':
[quote]4. Those of Sephardic Jewish origin also have the right to apply for nationality after a year of legal residency in Spain. Upon the rediscovery of Sephardi Jews during the campaigns of General Juan Prim in Northern Africa, the Spanish governments have taken friendly measures towards the descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 during the Spanish Inquisition. The motivation for these measures was a desire to repair a perceived injustice, the need of a collaborative base of natives in Spanish Morocco, and an attempt to attract the sympathy of wealthy European Sephardis like the Pereiras of France. The Edict of Expulsion was revoked.

Spanish diplomacy exercised protection over Sephardis of the Ottoman Empire and the independent Balkanic states succeeding it. The government of Miguel Primo de Rivera decreed in 1924 that every Sephardi could claim Spanish citizenship. This right was used by some refugees during the Second World War, including the Hungarian Jews saved by Ã

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Re: Right to Return To Spain - for Sephardic Jews

Post by Marco 72 » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:09 am

Spanish law provides a shortcut for Sephardi Jews when it comes to applying for nationality, but I haven't come across any shortcuts for residence. So when it comes to actually obtaining a residence permit you would presumably be in the same position as anyone else.

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