Iberian nationality legislation and sephardic jews

• Autores: Jessurun d'Oliveira, Hanns Ullrich
• Localización: European Constitutional Law Review, ISSN-e 1574-0196, Vol. 11, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 13-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • At the end of the fifteenth century, right at the start of that fateful year 1492, now more than half a millennium ago, Granada fell after a long siege and Emir Boabdil (Abu Abdallah Muhammed XII [1460-1533], El Chico) had to surrender the city. Three months later, being non-Christian, the Moors and Jews were expelled. On 7 February 2014, the Spanish Minister of Justice proposed a draft Bill to the Council of Ministers with a view to enabling descendants of Sephardic Jews able to demonstrate special ties to Spain to acquire, upon their request, Spanish nationality. The Bill, considered by the minister his most important achievement, forms the final piece of attempts at reparation, Wiedergutmachung, which were initiated in 1982, in the clamorous and turbulent post-Franco period