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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Wed Mar 6, 2013, 07:30 PM Mar 2013

Sephardic Jews invited back to Spain after 500 years

More than 500 years ago, tens of thousands of Jews fled Spain because of persecution. Now their descendants are being invited to return.

Before the infamous Spanish Inquisition of the 15th Century, some 300,000 Jews lived in Spain. It was one of the largest communities of Jews in the world.

Today, there are about 40,000 or 50,000 - but that number could be about to swell dramatically.

In November, Spain's justice minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon announced a plan to give descendants of Spain's original Jewish community - known as Sephardic Jews - a fast-track to a Spanish passport and Spanish citizenship.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21631427

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Sephardic Jews invited back to Spain after 500 years (Original Post) dipsydoodle Mar 2013 OP

Throw out the Jews, and your civilization goes downhill. Manifestor_of_Light Mar 2013 #1

Manifestor_of_Light

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1. Throw out the Jews, and your civilization goes downhill.

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Wed Mar 6, 2013, 07:39 PM

Mar 2013

Ferdinand and Isabella did this.

Also, Hitler drove a lot of very talented Jewish physicists to the U.S. where they worked on the atomic bomb. There was a Jewish brain drain from Europe to the U.S. in many fields of endeavor.

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