Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction: Sephardi Jews, Citizenship, and Reparation in Historical Context 1
6. Part I. Reparation and Reconciliation? Legal and Political Perspectives on the 2015 Laws
7. Chapter 1 “Reparative Citizenship” Confronting Injustices of the Past or Building Modern Nationalisms? 37
8. Chapter 2 Beyond Reparatory Justice: The Portuguese “Law of Return” as Nation Branding 53
9. Chapter 3 Reparations in Spanish Parliamentary Debates about the 2015 Nationality Law for Descendants of Sephardi Jews 73
10. Chapter 4 Personal Essay: Passport to the Past, Passport to the Future 94
11. Part II. Roots of “Returns” Early Uses of Jewish and Muslim History
12. Chapter 5 “Spaniards We Were, Spaniards We Are, and Spaniards We Will Be” Salonica’s Sephardic Jews and the Instrumentalization of the Spanish Past, 1898–1944 107
13. Chapter 6 “Spanish Jews” and “Friendly Muslims” The Historical Absence of a Citizenship Campaign for Muslims of Iberian Descent 137
14. Chapter 7 Personal Essay: The Story of a Spanish Dönme 153
15. Part III. Negotiating the Present. Between States and Official Communities
16. Chapter 8 Moriscos-Andalusíes: Historical Reparation, Reconciliation, and the Duty of Memory 165
17. Chapter 9 Negotiating Historical Redress: The Spanish Law of Nationality for Sephardi Descendants and Spain’s Jewish Communities 183
18. Chapter 10 Personal Essay “Congratulations, You Are Portuguese!” Reflections on Identity and Nationality 202
19. Chapter 11 Personal Essay: Sefarad Postponed 213
20. Part IV. Sephardi Descendants. Emotions, Identities, and Bureaucracies
21. Chapter 12 “La Nostalgia de Sefarad Tira Mucho, Pero No Tanto” Attachment, Sentiment, and the Ethics of Refusal 223
22. Chapter 13 Affective Citizenship and Iberian Sephardi Descendants 238
23. Chapter 14 Descendants of Conversos in the Americas: The Ancestral Past, Sephardi Identity, and Citizenship in Spain and Portugal 257
24. Chapter 15 Portuguese Citizenship for Brazilian Descendants of Sephardic Jews: A Netnography 277
25. Chapter 15 Appendix Certifying Origins for Sephardic Descendants in Portugal: A Snapshot of the Evaluation Process 295
26. Chapter 16 Personal Essay: The Fez in the Water—Exile and Return 304
27. Coda: Directions in Citizenship and Historical Repair 315
28. Index 319