Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews

by Seth Daniel Kunin

Book Overview

Juggling Identities is an extensive ethnography of the crypto-Jews who live deep within the Hispanic communities of the American Southwest. Critiquing scholars who challenge the cultural authenticity of these individuals, Seth D. Kunin builds a solid link between the crypto-Jews of New Mexico and their Spanish ancestors who secretly maintained their Jewish identity after converting to Catholicism, offering the strongest evidence yet of their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231142188
• ISBN13: 9780231142182
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher