Home›Open Questions›By what instrument, and on what date, did the Spanish state formally revoke the Alhambra Decree?Open QuestionsBy what instrument, and on what date, did the Spanish state formally revoke the Alhambra Decree?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "By what instrument, and on what date, did the Spanish state formally revoke the Alhambra Decree?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/by-what-instrument-and-on-what-date-did-the-spanish-state-formally-revoke-the-alhambra-decree.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). By what instrument, and on what date, did the Spanish state formally revoke the Alhambra Decree?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/by-what-instrument-and-on-what-date-did-the-spanish-state-formally-revoke-the-alhambra-decreeCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-by-what-instrument-and-on-what-date-did, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {By what instrument, and on what date, did the Spanish state formally revoke the Alhambra Decree?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/by-what-instrument-and-on-what-date-did-the-spanish-state-formally-revoke-the-alhambra-decree}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe decree of 31 March 1492 ordered a permanent exclusion, and no repealing act is catalogued in this atlas. That a formal revocation took place in the twentieth century is very widely repeated in general accounts, and none of them that the atlas has been able to check cites the repealing instrument. Spain has acted concretely to reverse the decree's effects, most recently through Ley 12/2015, which offered Spanish nationality to Sephardim of Spanish origin and frames itself in its preamble as a redress of the expulsion, but that law does not purport to repeal the decree and does not refer to any earlier act that did.What would resolve this A citation to the Boletin Oficial del Estado, or to a scholarly account working from it, identifying the repealing instrument, its date and its scope. A negative finding would be equally useful: if the decree was left standing and simply became inoperative, that is a fact about how spent instruments die and belongs in the record.OpenSpanish legal history; Sephardic studies; archival research in the Boletin Oficial del EstadoCortes Generales de Espana, Ley 12/2015, de 24 de junio, en materia de concesion de la nacionalidad espanola a los sefardies originarios de EspanaCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnThe Alhambra Decree, Religious Legal Instruments Well-attested Source Ley 12/2015, de 24 de junio, en materia de concesion de la nacionalidad espanola a los sefardies originarios de EspanaCortes Generales de Espanatier 1SourcesLey 12/2015, de 24 de junio, en materia de concesion de la nacionalidad espanola a los sefardies originarios de Espanatier 1Cortes Generales de Espana, Boletin Oficial del Estado, 2015Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year