Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Culture and History
Angaben zur Quelle:
8,2 (2006) 53-72
Schlagwort(e):
Jews Historiography
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Sephardim
Kurzfassung:
The rise of liberal nationalism in 19th-century Spain put an end to the ostracism of descendants of Conversos and caused Spanish intellectuals to rethink the Jewish history of the country. For the first time, Spanish historians deplored the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. A belief that Sephardic Jews and Catholic Spaniards have a shared ethnicity gained currency in Spain. The culmination of this process came in 1924, with a decree by Primo de Rivera which allowed the naturalization of the Sephardim. The history of the rehabilitation of Jews in modern Spain helps in understanding Franco's ambivalent policy during the Holocaust. Driven by the conception of Sephardic Jews as having Spanish ethnicity, Francoists allowed some Jewish refugees to enter Spain; at the same time, the influx of Jews to Spain threatened to erase the illusion of Spain as a homogeneous Catholic country. In Spain today, despite the tenacity of some anti-Jewish prejudices, the general behavior toward Jews is not guided by antisemitism.
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