Back طرد اليهود من إسبانيا Arabic Выгнанне яўрэяў з Іспаніі Byelorussian Выгнаньне габрэяў з Гішпаніі BE-X-OLD Изгонване на евреите от Испания Bulgarian Expulsió dels jueus d'Espanya Catalan Forpelo de la judoj el Hispanio Esperanto Expulsión de los judíos de España Spanish Espainiako juduen kanporatzea Basque اخراج یهودیها از اسپانیا Persian Juutalaisten karkotus Espanjasta Finnish
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The Expulsion of Jews from Spain was the expulsion of practicing Jews following the Alhambra Decree in 1492,[1] which was enacted to eliminate their influence on Spain's large converso population and to ensure its members did not revert to Judaism. Over half of Spain's Jews had converted to Catholicism as a result of the Massacre of 1391.[2] Due to continuing attacks, around 50,000 more had converted by 1415.[3] Many of those who remained decided to convert to avoid expulsion. As a result of the Alhambra decree and the prior persecution, over 200,000 Jews converted to Catholicism, and between 40,000 and 100,000 were expelled. An unknown number returned to Spain in the following years.[4][5] The expulsion led to mass migration of Jews from Spain to France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and the Mediterranean Basin.[6] One result of the migration was new Jewish surnames appearing in Italy and Greece. The surnames Faraggi, Farag and Farachi, for example, originated from the Spanish city of Fraga.[7]
In 1924, the regime of Miguel Primo de Rivera granted Spanish citizenship to a part of the Sephardic Jewish diaspora.[8] The edict was formally and symbolically revoked on December 16, 1968,[9] following the Second Vatican Council, by the regime of Francisco Franco. This occurred a full century after Jews had openly begun to practice their religion in Spain and synagogues were once more legal places of worship under Spain's Laws of Religious Freedom.
In 2015, the Cortes Generales of Spain passed a law whereby the descendants of Sephardic Jews could obtain Spanish nationality by naturalisation to "compensate for shameful events in the country's past."[10] Jews who could prove that they are the descendants of those expelled from Spain due to the Alhambra Decree could "become Spaniards without leaving home or giving up their present nationality."[11][12] The deadline to apply was October 1, 2019.[13][14]
- ^ "The Edict of Expulsion of the Jews – 1492 Spain". www.sephardicstudies.org. Retrieved 2017-06-27.
- ^ Pérez (2012, p. 17)
- ^ Gerber, Jane (1994). The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience. New York: The Free Press. pp. 1–144. ISBN 978-0029115749.
- ^ Pérez, Joseph (2007). History of a Tragedy: The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Translated by Hochroth, Lysa. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252031410.
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- ^ "The Faraggi Family of the Balkans, Salonika, Volos, Larissa, Tricala, Seres, Monastir, Kastoria, Florina and Istanbul". Archived from the original on 2021-01-25. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ Celia Prados García: La expulsión de los judíos y el retorno de los sefardíes como nacionales españoles. Un análisis histórico-jurídico (in Spanish)
- ^ "1492 Ban on Jews Is Voided by Spain", The New York Times, Dec. 17, 1968
- ^ Mir, Meritxell (17 February 2014). "Sephardic Jews eager to apply for Spanish citizenship". Religion News Service. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ^ "1492 and all that". The Economist. 22 February 2014.
- ^ Stavans, Ilan (2014-04-01). "Repatriating Spain's Jews". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-27.
- ^ [The Spanish Offer for Citizenship to Descendants of Sephardic Jews Has Ended, 130,000 requests for citizenship were made], Ofer Aderet, Haaretz, October 2, 2019.
- ^ "New Deadline for the Spanish Citizenship for Sephardic Jews". Immigration Lawyers Spain. 2019-09-18. Retrieved 2022-12-12.