Reparative citizenship for Sephardi descendants : returning to the Jewish past in Spain and Portugal /
edited by Dalia Kandiyoti, Rina Benmayor.
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2023.
- pages cm
- Remapping cultural history; 16 .
Rina Benmayor is Professor Emerita at California State University Monterey Bay, where she taught oral history, literature, and digital storytelling.
"In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation for Jews who were forced to undergo conversions or expelled from Iberia nearly half a millennia ago. Drawing from scholarly and first-person essays, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzes the memory and afterlives of those who were wronged, and how reconciliatory rights impact the lives of those affected"--