{"product_id":"reparative-citizenship-for-sephardi-descendants-returning-to-the-jewish-past-in-spain-and-portugal-9781800738249","title":"Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn 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 on the memory of the expulsion from Sepharad, the scholarly and personal essays in \u003cem\u003eReparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants\u003c\/em\u003e analyze the impact of reconciliation laws on descendants and contemporary forms of citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eReparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants \u003cem\u003eis a thorough, thoughtful, and empathetic exploration of the many issues that surround the 2015 Spanish and Portuguese nationality laws and the choice, on the part of individual Jews of Sephardi descent and conversos, to pursue (or eschew) this option. In this fascinating and compelling collection, editors Kandiyoti and Benmayor have gathered an astonishing range of perspectives on the historical, emotive, sociological, and political dynamics that underlie the Sephardi quest for “reparative citizenship.””\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Sarah Abrevaya Stein\u003c\/strong\u003e, UCLA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Kandiyoti and Benmayor's volume brings together the legal and emotional repercussions of a return to Spain and Portugal for Sephardic Jews. Beautifully intermingling questions of expulsion, exclusion and reparation, \u003c\/em\u003eReparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants \u003cem\u003etreats readers to a nuanced and multifaceted examination of Sephardim. By melding personal essays with rigorous academic studies, the editors have compiled a book that speaks to the heart and mind while addressing the discomfiting realities of an invitation six hundred years in the making.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Sara J. Brenneis, Amherst College\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sephardi Jews, Citizenship, and Reparation in Historical Context\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDalia Kandiyoti and Rina Benmayor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Reparation and Reconciliation? Legal and Political Perspectives on the 2015 Laws\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Reparative Citizenship”: Confronting Injustices of the Past or Building Modern Nationalisms?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlfons Aragoneses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Beyond Reparatory Justice: The Portuguese “Law of Return” as Nation Branding\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eIsabel David and Gabriela Anouck Côrte-Real Pinto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Reparations in Spanish Parliamentary Debates about the 2015 Nationality Law for Descendants of Sephardi Jews\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavide Aliberti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Personal Essay: Passport to the Past, Passport to the Future\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eColette Capriles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Roots of “Returns”: Early Uses of Jewish and Muslim History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Spaniards We Were, Spaniards We Are, and Spaniards We Will Be”: Salonica’s Sephardic Jews and the Instrumentalization of the Spanish Past, 1898–1944\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDevin E. Naar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Spanish Jews” and “Friendly Muslims”: The Historical Absence of a Citizenship Campaign for Muslims of Iberian Descent\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eElisabeth Bolorinos Allard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Personal Essay: The Story of a Spanish Dönme\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eUluç Özüyener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Negotiating the Present: Between States and Official Communities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMoriscos Andalusíes\u003c\/em\u003e: Historical Reparation, Reconciliation, and the Duty of Memory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eElena Arigita and Laura Galián\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Negotiating Historical Redress: The Spanish Law of Nationality for Sephardi Descendants and Spain’s Jewish Communities\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDaniela Flesler and Michal Rose Friedman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Personal Essay: “Congratulations, You Are Portuguese!” Reflections on Identity and Nationality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRita Ender\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Personal Essay: Sefarad Postponed\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRuth Behar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: Sephardi Descendants: Emotions, Identities, and Bureaucracies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e“La Nostalgia de Sefarad Tira Mucho, Pero No Tanto”\u003c\/em\u003e: Attachment, Sentiment, and the Ethics of Refusal\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCharles A. McDonald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Affective Citizenship and Iberian Sephardi Descendants\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRina Benmayor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e Descendants of Conversos in the Americas: The Ancestral Past, Sephardi Identity, and Citizenship in Spain and Portugal\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Dalia Kandiyoti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/strong\u003e Portuguese Citizenship for Brazilian Descendants of Sephardic Jews: A Netnography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarina Pignatelli\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix:\u003c\/strong\u003e Certifying Origins for Sephardic Descendants in Portugal: A Snapshot of the Evaluation Process\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTeresa Santos and Heraldo Bento\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/strong\u003e Personal Essay: The Fez in the Water—Exile and Return\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVictor Silverman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eCoda:\u003c\/strong\u003e Directions in Citizenship and Historical Repair\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDalia Kandiyoti and Rina Benmayor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042751316311,"sku":"9781800738249","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800738249.jpg?v=1750955468","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reparative-citizenship-for-sephardi-descendants-returning-to-the-jewish-past-in-spain-and-portugal-9781800738249","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}