The following article from the Washington Post notes the recent granting of Spanish Citizenship to more than 4000 descendants of Sephardic Jews that left Spain in 1492.
What has not been a matter of discussion to my knowledge, iis any type of, for lack of a better term, compensation or rectification for the descendants of Conversos who emigrated to the Spanish colonies in the hope of evading Inquisitional detection and scrutiny. While these Conversos and their descendants were not “forced” into exile by decree, and were in fact barred from emigrating at various times, the environment created by anti Converso sentiment and bias was a key factor in their decisions to journey to the farthest reaches of the Spanish empire.
Rabbi Juan Marcos Bejarano-Gutierrez is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas where he earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering. He studied at the Siegal College of Judaic Studies in Cleveland and received a Master of Arts Degree with Distinction in Judaic Studies.
He completed his doctoral studies at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago in 2015. His doctoral dissertation is titled “Complex Identities: Christian and Jewish Attitudes Towards Conversos” and was accepted in September 2015.
He also studied at the American Seminary for Contemporary Judaism and received rabbinic ordination in 2011 from Yeshivat Mesilat Yesharim.
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