![]() ![]() The news spread like wildfire among Sephardic Jews around the world.Īccording to the Spanish Federation of Jewish Communities, which processes the applications, there were about 6,000 enquiries in the first month alone - including one from an unnamed member of the US Congress. "In the long journey Spain has undertaken to rediscover a part of itself, few occasions are as moving as today," he said.Īnyone who could prove their Spanish Jewish origins, he said, would be given Spanish nationality. In November, Spain's justice minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon announced a plan to give descendants of Spain's original Jewish community - known as Sephardic Jews - a fast-track to a Spanish passport and Spanish citizenship. Today, there are about 40,000 or 50,000 - but that number could be about to swell dramatically. ![]() It was one of the largest communities of Jews in the world. Now their descendants are being invited to return.īefore the infamous Spanish Inquisition of the 15th Century, some 300,000 Jews lived in Spain. More than 500 years ago, tens of thousands of Jews fled Spain because of persecution. Sephardic Jews invited back to Spain after 500 years ![]()
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