The debate over a crypto-Jewish presence in New Mexico: The role of ethnographic allegory and orientalism.

Sociology of Religion | March 22, 2002| | Copyright

For the editors of the Atlantic Monthly (in their December 2000 issue) it was "a tempting tale, but not, it seems, a likely one." The tale in question is one that has appeared often in a variety of scholarly journals over the past twenty-five years and its central contention is that there has been a continuing crypto-Jewish (1) presence in New Mexico that dates back to the earliest Spanish settlements in the region. Colonial New Mexico's location on the fringes of the Spanish Empire, so the argument goes, attracted a number of Sephardic crypto-Jews anxious to escape scrutiny by ...

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