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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/11dfd36d645abe01 https://verfassungsblog.de/jewish-past-mnemonic-constitutionalism-and-the-politics-of-citizenship/ Jewish Past, Mnemonic Constitutionalism and the Politics of Citizenship Belavusau, Uladzislau eng 2024-07-28 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Anti-Semitism Citizenship Germany Israel Memory Laws mnemonic constitutionalism Portugal Spain Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 For this symposium essay, I will focus on the Jewish past, with its tragedies extending beyond and preceding the Holocaust as a master narrative unfolded by mnemonic constitutionalism. Specifically, I will reflect on how citizenship laws – as the foundational cluster of constitutional law in liberal democracies, including the countries without a formal constitution – have built constitutional ontologies upon the Jewish past and the “never again” theme through three central examples involving “Jewish citizens”.