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“El camino desde Sefarad”. La historiografía de la presencia judía en España
“The road from Sepharad” Historiography of the Jewish presence in Spain
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Cadavid Otero, Margarita María
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Resumen
This article analyses the evolution and status of the historiography about the Jewish presence in Spain aimed at understanding its significance and scope in the construction of the Spanish nation. The topic has awakened researchers’ interest since the nineteenth century as part of what was denominated “Spain’s problem.” Before this period, there were few studies on the relevance of Jewish presence in the Spanish peninsula. Any comments on Jewish people before that century were markedly biased by religion and tending to despise their influence. Then, since the nineteenth century it was understood that the formation of Spain as a notion and historic reality has been Jewish permeated, moreover their influence helps understand the multiple ways of being and of understanding the world that we know as “Hispanicity”.