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Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book

Edited by Seth D. Kunin - Contributions by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz; Annette B. Fromm; Stanley M. Hordes; Hilary Klotz Steinman; Seth D. Kunin; Joseph Lovett; Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila; Isabelle Medina Sandoval; Genie Milgrom; Dolores Sloan and Matthew D. Warshawsky

Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book offers close examinations of a manuscript written over a 20-year period by Loggie Carrasco, a well-known crypto-Jew from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The manuscript includes a wide range of genres: folklore, memory, ritual practices, genealogy, and most significantly poetry and songs. Although the manuscript remains unpublished, this book utilizes quotations and excepts to enable the reader to have a good understanding of Carrasco’s voice. Focusing on the main genres and themes that shape Carrasco’s manuscripts, the contributors argue that the work is both unique and illustrative of the vitality of crypto-Jewish culture and contemporary understandings of it.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 258 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-66692-657-6 • Hardback • August 2023 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66692-658-3 • eBook • July 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
Subjects: Social Science / Jewish Studies, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies, History / Jewish

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

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

The Crypto-Jewish phenomenon hit New Mexico like a Tsunami in the early 1980s when then State Historian Stan Hordes started hearing whispers and stories by Catholic Hispano New Mexicans about a hidden legacy long buried, yet still alive. This volume reveals how that experience of many New Mexicans has evolved, through traditions, music, heritage, and DNA technology, into something much vaster than initially suspected. Family histories and genealogies trace back through a labyrinth journey from northern New Mexico, through Mexico and the Caribbean, to the Canary Islands, then further back to Medieval Spain and Portugal, and North Africa as well. Loggie Carrasco is the real-life protagonist in this saga of life, death, persecution, re-discovery, and redemption.


— Rob Martinez, State Historian of New Mexico


Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book offers close examinations of a manuscript written over a 20-year period by Loggie Carrasco, a well-known crypto-Jew from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The manuscript includes a wide range of genres: folklore, memory, ritual practices, genealogy, and most significantly poetry and songs. Although the manuscript remains unpublished, this book utilizes quotations and excepts to enable the reader to have a good understanding of Carrasco’s voice. Focusing on the main genres and themes that shape Carrasco’s manuscripts, the contributors argue that the work is both unique and illustrative of the vitality of crypto-Jewish culture and contemporary understandings of it.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 258 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
    978-1-66692-657-6 • Hardback • August 2023 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
    978-1-66692-658-3 • eBook • July 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
    Subjects: Social Science / Jewish Studies, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies, History / Jewish
Author
Author
  • Seth D. Kunin is Deputy Vice-Chancellor International at Curtin University.

Table of Contents
Table 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

Reviews
Reviews
  • The Crypto-Jewish phenomenon hit New Mexico like a Tsunami in the early 1980s when then State Historian Stan Hordes started hearing whispers and stories by Catholic Hispano New Mexicans about a hidden legacy long buried, yet still alive. This volume reveals how that experience of many New Mexicans has evolved, through traditions, music, heritage, and DNA technology, into something much vaster than initially suspected. Family histories and genealogies trace back through a labyrinth journey from northern New Mexico, through Mexico and the Caribbean, to the Canary Islands, then further back to Medieval Spain and Portugal, and North Africa as well. Loggie Carrasco is the real-life protagonist in this saga of life, death, persecution, re-discovery, and redemption.


    — Rob Martinez, State Historian of New Mexico


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