Recent decision of the Spanish Government to grant Spanish citizenship to the Sephardic dispersed the world was an act of historical reparation and this work seek to trace on the reasons for such that have informed it. We find two aspects that surely has been taken into account for its adoption. The first leads to rating the Jewish presence in that nation and so nothing more appropriate than analysis of the well known controversy that kept Claudio Sánchez Albornoz and Américo Castro and historiography in this theme. The other aspect to consider is the attitude of the Spaniards in the 19th and 20th centuries to those Sephardim, taking into account that for that then, a hispanist opined that Spain was not only a nation free of Jews, but that he had forgotten them, and the favorable reaction that produced its rediscovery, which was called sefardofilia.
Kuznitzky, A. (2014). The Spanish citizenship and the Sephardic Jews. Historical reasons. Cuadernos Judaicos, (31), Pág. 1–30. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8749.2014.35671
