Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book

Herausgeber: Kunin, Seth D.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9781666926576
• ISBN-10: 1666926574
• Artikelnr.: 67993531

Autorenporträt

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. W

Inhaltsangabe

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