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New Mexico's Crypto-Jews : image and memory /

"While photographing the Congregation Montefiore Cemetery in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in 1985, Cary Herz first heard whispers about "the other people." Thus began a twenty-year search for descendants of crypto-Jews, the Sephardic Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism during the...

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Main Author: Herz, Cary.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
Subjects and Genres:
Crypto-Jews > New Mexico > Pictorial works.
Crypto-Jews > New Mexico > History.
Jews > New Mexico > Pictorial works.
Jews > New Mexico > History.
Hispanic Americans > New Mexico > Pictorial works.
Hispanic Americans > New Mexico > History.
Cryptojuifs > Nouveau-Mexique > Ouvrages illustrés.
Cryptojuifs > Nouveau-Mexique > Histoire.
Juifs > Nouveau-Mexique > Ouvrages illustrés.
Juifs > Nouveau-Mexique > Histoire.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > Nouveau-Mexique > Ouvrages illustrés.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > Nouveau-Mexique > Histoire.
Crypto-Jews.
Hispanic Americans.
Jews.
New Mexico.
New Mexico
Marranen.
Juden.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Art, history, memory, identity, truth: the art and craft of Cary Herz / Ori Z. Soltes
  • Descendants
  • Headstones: persistence of memory
  • Biblical names
  • Portugal and Spain, 1994 and 2000
  • Cultural collections: objects, folk art, and theatre
  • Afterword: La Conquistadora: A Crypto-Jewish connection / Mona Hernandez.

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