Reflections on a New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book

Seth D. Kunin

doi:10.5771/9781666926583

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 Although the manuscript remains unpublished, this book utilizes quotations and excepts to enable the reader to have a good understanding of Carrasco’s voice.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.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2657-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2658-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 248
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Figures No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. Contents and Rhetorical Structure No access
    2. 1. Self-Identification No access
    3. 1. Ritual and Practice No access
    4. 1. External Validation or Definition No access
  2. Strong Crypto-Judaic Identity No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Moving from Oral to Written after Ruptures No access
  2. Songs and the Nation No access
  3. The Need for Sonic Codes No access
  4. Concluding Thoughts No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Notes No access
  2. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Loggie’s Account of the History of the Carrasco Line No access
  2. Hordes’ Account of the History of the Carrasco Line No access
  3. Hordes’ Analysis of Loggie’s Account of the History of the Carrasco Line No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
5. 1. 1. The Iskandarani and Djerbi Families No access
    2. 1. The Djerbi Family No access
  2. Concluding Thoughts No access
  3. Archival Sources (Abbreviations) No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. 1. Primary Sources No access
    2. Secondary Scholarly Sources No access
1. 1. 1. Objects Used in the Synagogue No access
  2. Passover in the Medieval Spanish Haggadot No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
2. 1. From Gothic England through Post–World War II America No access
  2. Writers—and Readers—Learn about Crypto Judaism No access
  3. 1. Nonfiction about Crypto-Jews No access
    2. Attention from Academia and New Literary Formats No access
    3. 1. Appropriation No access
      2. Authenticity No access
      3. Agency No access
    4. It's Time to Evaluate for Literary Quality No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
3. 1. 1. My Awareness No access
    2. 1. My Self-identification No access
  2. 1. My Genealogy and DNA No access
    2. Traditions and Practices No access
    3. Edict of Grace No access
    4. My Traditions and Practices No access
  3. 1. Family Beliefs No access
    2. External Validation No access
    3. My External Validations No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Children of the Inquisition: Their Stories Can Now Be Told No access
  2. 1. Starting to Research No access
    2. Conjecture: The Questions the Research Raises No access
    3. The Roots of Antisemitism No access
    4. What Else Was Left Out No access
    5. How Did We Get What We Got? No access
    6. The Henriques Family No access
    7. Jose Barreiro No access
    8. Rabbi Stephen Leon and the Anouism of the American Southwest No access
    9. The Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies No access
    10. Origins of the Story No access
    11. 1. The Legacy of Carlos DeMedeiros’ Fifteenth Great-Grandmother Branca Dias in Recife, Brazil No access
  3. The Ottoman Empire No access
  4. Postscript No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 237 - 244
1. About the Editor No access
2. About the Contributors No access