Reflections on a New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book

This book explores a unique crypto-Jewish manuscript written by Loggie Carrasco of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The essays examine central themes in Loggie's manuscript and use them to reflect crypto-Judaism both as a historic and a vital living culture.

List of contents

Part 1: History and Culture
Chapter 1. Song of the Sparrow: An Example of Cultural Continuity and Creation
Seth D. Kunin
Chapter 2. Oscillating Technologies of Sephardi Transmission: The Role of Notebooks and Orality
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
Chapter 3. "A Woman So Perfect Keeping the Law": The Crypto-Jewish Faith of Justa Méndez in Colonial Mexico
Matthew D. Warshawsky
Chapter 4. Testing Historical Memory: Tracing the Paternal Line of Loggie Carrasco
Stanley M. Hordes
Chapter 5. From Jewish Merchants to Palestinian Muslims: The Sephardic Iskandarani-Djerbi Families
Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila
Part 2: Creative Responses
Chapter 6. What They Left Behind
Annette B. Fromm
Chapter 7. Crypto-Jews in Literature: Appropriation, Authenticity and Agency
Dolores Sloan
Chapter 8. New Mexico Jewish Faith Keepers
Isabelle Medina Sandoval
Chapter 9. Children of the Inquisition: Their Stories Can Now be Told - Reflections on Making the Film
Joseph Lovett and Hilary Klotz Steinman
Chapter 10. Reflections on My Spiritual Journey as a Crypto-Jew
Genie Milgrom

About the author

Seth D. Kunin is Deputy Vice-Chancellor International at Curtin University.

Summary

This book explores a unique crypto-Jewish manuscript written by Loggie Carrasco of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The essays examine central themes in Loggie’s manuscript and use them to reflect crypto-Judaism both as a historic and a vital living culture.

Product details

• Authors: Seth D. Kunin
• Assisted by: Seth D. Kunin (Editor), Kunin Seth D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781666926576
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-657-6
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Relating to Jewish people & groups, Social groups: religious groups & communities