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] Born on 2 February 1852 in the calle de las Infantas, Madrid,[2] to a humble Catholic family of Asturian origin.

[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.