poster for the commemoration of 58th anniversary Nakba
few months ago I stumbled upon an article about the cunning and the experience of the Jews after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. It occurred to me to draw a comparison between the Jews expelled from Spain in the sixteenth century, and modern Israel returned to Spain, the land of their ancestors, to find the home of his ancestors. Once I finished it parallels the similarity of the Palestinian case I offered to make a second comparison and study these two events.
The Jewish sixteenth century, exiled, landless and homeless, but part of a spiritual nation, faces a dilemma side, facing the Mediterranean and back a sword Castellana that compels him to abandon his beloved Spain. The crucial year is 1492 and the Iberian Jew is expelled or forced to convert to Catholicism. The community is thriving and efficient decimated and forced to emigrate. For the Catholic kings, is an indisputable duty, for the Ottoman Sultan is the most absurd decision that he released a English monarch. For the inhabitants of the ghettos is a tragedy. It is then, as a Jew, with wrinkles, worries, and children by ensuring that, begins his eternal motion. The steps that their ancestors walked, now up to the undo. The destination is somewhere within the Ottoman Empire, North Africa or the Balkans. Thousands of Jewish families are received under the auspices of Sultan Bayezid II, and gradually integrated into the Turkish daily. However, some refuse to lose that contact with the lost Spain. Generation after generation the Jews inherit their children and grandchildren reaped rich cultural heritage while lived in Spain: the rigors of Talmudic study, agile mercantilist spirit, fluency in the languages \u200b\u200band other skills.
Expulsion of Jews from Spain by Emilio Sala French
the centuries pass. In modern Israel, a young family inherits a key, it has happened every generation and every migration. According to his last living grandparent, the key opens the door to what was his home in Spain! where their ancestors lived for centuries. In a display of ingenuity and interest, the man travels to Spain, he goes home and surprised to see as the key opens the door for wear.
Of course, a fictitious image that moves and reminds us that nostalgia for the past, so that mourning will be no more. Also, the quality of human being not to forget the past. The retention of an old rusty key life and pass it on to each generation, is a violence against the possibility of a future uncertain and innovative, and a bond that is to inherit at all costs. Thus the individual does not want to forget his days in X or Y location, but rather, preserve and collect small pieces of what looks like a puzzle
irony of historical events is that to solve their lack of land stripped Jews and others were stripped themselves of Spain 600 years ago. Here not only describe the version of the poor Jew who was expelled and mistreated by history but also produce the second side of the coin in history. The Jew to find an end to their days of transient, floating-perpetrated transmigracional and others in the same way they did to him. Memory stripped and repeats and develops in front of their eyes. That is, intolerant, greedy and corrosive peninsular fifteenth century in the history repeat their atrocities and mistakes, but not as Jews but as English twentieth-century colonists.
Similarly the Palestinian who was stripped of his property and thrown on refugee camps after the Nakba or War of 1948, also holds a key. Several generations have passed and from that time forward the key is happening consecutively. Today, the descendant of these unfortunate people back to what his grandfather had promised would be a large, airy house that rests in a small town in central and northern Palestine. The young man looks through people and people - but within himself knows that there is no home. Know that the house his grandfather many times drawing For more than 50 years was reduced to rubble hand at ground level. Just as the modern Israel returns to Andalusia or wherever and connects an entire network system and historical traditions, the Palestinian-Arab, Muslim or Christian, also tied to your memory key that you can come to their descendants to that was once theirs. English, Jews, Palestinians, no matter what town is in the end, the cyclical strength of the story unfolds in simple circles endlessly.
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Pictures of the Palestinian exodus in 1948 (Nakba).
Displaced by Israeli machine seeking refuge in nearby villages.
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