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New Mexico's Crypto-Jews - Image and Memory (Paperback)
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New Mexico's Crypto-Jews - Image and Memory (Paperback)
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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 Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions
centuries ago. Many openly professed Catholicism, but continued to
practice the Jewish faith privately. Herz's photographs and the
accompanying essays honor the people whose ancestors, through
families' oral histories and genealogical records, knew about their
heritage. Other New Mexican Hispanics have recently begun to
explore their families' customs and are only beginning to examine
their possible blended lineage. To help complete her exploration,
Herz sought out symbols--gravesites, artifacts, and icons--that
might point toward the presence of the descendants of crypto-Jews
who came to the New World. There has recently been a renewed
interest in crypto-Jews, as DNA tests have revealed the Jewish
heritage of a number of Hispanic New Mexicans.
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