David Mendoza, at The Blogs

Aug 25, 2021, 1:48 AM

Is Spain’s Sephardic nationality law being abused?

1683 painting by Francisco Rizi depicting the auto-da-fé held in Plaza Mayor, Madrid, in 1680. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31407824

The Spanish police are now investigating possible fraud in the scheme offering citizenship to people of Sephardic Jewish origin. This is no surprise to those Sephardic genealogists whose complaints over recent years have been drowned out by the ringing...

Jul 2, 2020, 1:16 PM

A Sephardic perspective on the Portuguese Nationality Law

An Open Letter to the members of the Portuguese National Assembly I am a Sephardic Jew. Portugal owes me nothing. Yet the Nationality Law – as irrational as it is – offers a chance of survival for Portuguese-Jewish culture which...

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David Mendoza is a genealogist living in London. He is president of the Sephardic Genealogical Society and co-hosts the weekly Sephardic World lectures on Sephardic history and genealogy.

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