Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants: Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal

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 onthe memoryof the expulsion from Sepharad, the scholarly and personal essays in Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzethe impactof reconciliation laws ondescendantsand contemporary forms ofcitizenship.