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How can a government apologize for an atrocity?
In 2015, the Spanish and Portuguese governments began accepting applications from the descendants of the Jews once forcibly converted, massacred, and expelled from the Iberian Peninsula.
But why offer citizenship? Why not leave the past in the past?
Because Sephardic Jews still carry the memory and the legacy of the centuries of vibrant Jewish life in Spain. This video honors the astonishing resilience of a community that refused to be destroyed.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:39 Sephardic Jewry and Spanish identity
01:45 Jewish martyrdom
03:39 Christian coercion to convert
04:29 Conversos and CryptoJews
07:30 The Inquisition of CryptoJews
09:05 Jewish expulsion from Spain and Portugal
09:48 Spain and Portugal offer citizenship to Sephardic Jews

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Vicente Cutanda Toraya
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Aviv Hod
Bernard Picart
Miguel Ximénez
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:46 Jewish martyrdom
03:41 Forced conversions
07:31 The Spanish Inquisition
09:06 Expulsion of Spanish Jewry

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