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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810514503321

Autore

Ojeda Mata Maite

Titolo

Modern Spain and the Sephardim : legitimizing identities / / Maite Ojeda-Mata

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-5175-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Collana

Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory

Disciplina

305.892/4046

Soggetti

Sephardim - Spain - History

Antisemitism - Spain - History

Spain Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: On legitimizing identities -- 1. The legacy of modernity for the Jews in Spain -- 2. The Sephardim and Spanish colonialism in Morocco and the Eastern Mediterranean -- 3. Sephardic Jews in Spain -- 4. The management of socio-religious differences -- 5. Persecution and expulsion during the early years of the Franco dictatorship -- 6. Spain and the Sephardim during World War II -- 7. Epilogue: The 2015 law granting Spanish citizenship to Sephardic Jews of Spanish origin.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book scrutinizes the hitherto-unchallenged idea of the Sephardic identity as a mix of Spaniard and Jew. Ojeda-Mata examines the processes by which this conceptualization of the Sephardim developed from the nineteenth century onward and the consequences of this conceptualization for Sephardic Jews during World War II and in the present day"--