Juggling identities : identity and authenticity among the Crypto-Jews /

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Author / Creator:Kunin, Seth Daniel.
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11141644
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ISBN:9780231512572
0231512570
0231142188
9780231142182
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Summary: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 ethnic and religious origins. Kunin adopts a unique approach to the lives of modern crypto-Jews, concentrating primarily on their un.
Other form:Print version: Kunin, Seth D. Juggling Identities : Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009 9780231142182
Standard no.:10.7312/kuni14218