Ángel Pulido

Ángel Pulido Fernández (1852–1932) was a Spanish physician, publicist and Liberal politician, who stood out as prominent philosephardite during the Restoration.[1]

Biography

Born on 2 February 1852 in the calle de las Infantas, Madrid,[2] to a humble Catholic family of Asturian origin.[3] He took studies in Medicine during the Sexenio Democrático (1868–1874).[3]

He vowed to rebuild the links between and the Sephardi Jews, descendant of those expelled from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century.[4] He coined the expression españoles sin patria (Spaniards without a homeland) to refer to Sephardi Jews.[1] His brand of Philosephardism, marked by a racialist approach, was not exempt, not unlike other philosephardists, from a certain degree of Islamophobia, and also stressed the superiority of Sephardi Jews over Ashkenazim.[5] Aside from the pro-Sephardi cause, he also campaigned for humanization of the death penalty, for the professionalization of veterinarians, in favour of blind people and in favour of conscription.[6]

He became a member of the National Royal Academy of Medicine.[2] Elected Senator by the Academy of Medicine in 1899, and later in 1903 by the University of Salamanca, Pulido became a Senator for life in 1910.[7]

He died on 4 December 1932.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Aragoneses 2016, p. 20.
  2. ^ a b c "Pulido y Fernández, Ángel". Real Academia Nacional de Medicina.
  3. ^ a b Ginio 2018, p. 288.
  4. ^ Ginio 2008, p. 111.
  5. ^ Aragoneses 2016, p. 21.
  6. ^ Díaz-Mas 2000.
  7. ^ "Pulido y Fernández, Ángel". Senate of Spain.

Bibliography

  • Aragoneses, Alfons (2016). "Convivencia and filosefardismo in Spanish Nation-building". Research Paper Series (5). Max Planck Institute for European Legal History: 1–34.
  • Díaz-Mas, Paloma (2000). "Repercusión de la campaña de Ángel Pulido en la opinión pública de su época: la respuesta sefardí" (PDF). España y la cultura hispánica en el sureste europeo.
  • Ginio, Alisa Meyuhas (2008). "El encuentro del senador español Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández con los judíos del Norte de Marruecos". El Prezente. Studies in Sephardic Culture: 111–126.
  • Ginio, Alisa Meyuhas (2018). "The Sephardic Diaspora Revisited: Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández (1852–1932)And His Campaign". Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism. Vol. 8. Brill. pp. 287–296. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004154421.i-446.73. ISBN 9789004154421.