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Related: About this forumAfter expelling Jews in 1492, Spain considers inviting them back
Nothing to do with i/P of course.TOLEDO, Spain The Jews who flock to the two medieval synagogues in this walled city are tourists, not worshipers. No one of their faith has practiced it in the temples' exquisitely decorated precincts since 1492.
That was the year King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, besides dispatching Christopher Columbus to look for a passage to India, decreed that the Jews of Spain had to either convert to Christianity or quit the country. Many fled and were robbed, beaten or raped on the way out. Those who stayed faced possible torture and a gruesome death in the Spanish Inquisition.
More than half a millennium later, Spain says it is intent on rectifying its "historic mistake." Under a government proposal still to be voted on by lawmakers, descendants of Spanish Jews would be offered citizenship and welcomed back to the land that drove out their ancestors.
Up to 3.5 million Jews worldwide trace their lineage to Spain, although it's not clear how or when their forebears made their way there in the first place. Known as Sephardic Jews after the Hebrew word for Spain, they scattered across Europe, North Africa and farther afield. Nowadays, the highest concentration of Sephardim is in Israel.
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-spain-jews-20140327,0,4173586.story
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After expelling Jews in 1492, Spain considers inviting them back (Original Post)
bemildred
Mar 2014
OP
If one wants to assign responsibility to a people in the present for the sins of the deep past
R. Daneel Olivaw
Apr 2014
#6
I doubt that too many will be availing themselves of this offer; but a nice gesture
LeftishBrit
Mar 2014
#3
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)1. I'm certainly glad that they didn't hurry... nt
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)2. Some people(s) take longer to come
to terms with their darker historical past. Any forward positive momentum is a welcome sign.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)5. I'm sure all the Sephardic Jews are thrilled with it. nt
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)6. If one wants to assign responsibility to a people in the present for the sins of the deep past
then may I ask what country that you reside in?
There's always accountability in some form that has not been addressed from nation to nation.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)3. I doubt that too many will be availing themselves of this offer; but a nice gesture
bemildred
(90,061 posts)4. Yeah, what's not to like? And it was indeed an historic mistake. nt