Fractured Faiths / Las fes fracturadas: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World Identities / El judaísmo español, la Inquisición y identidades ... (English, English and Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Roger L. Martínez-Dávila; Díaz, Josef; Hart, Ron D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1934491519 ISBN 13: 9781934491515

Publisher: SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks, 2016

Synopsis

Why does the story of secret Jews fascinate us? What is crypto-Judaism? In recent decades religious practices that were preserved in hiding for centuries have become more widely known. Specifically, families of Spanish Jewish descent have retained elements of Judaism for five hundred years. What incredible religious and cultural tenacity! For many these elements represent a discovered identity that helps to explain mysteries in their lives. Is a person Jewish by genes, cultural heritage, religious practice, or by choice? What survives for a person whose ancestors were Jewish five hundred years ago?

Fractured Faiths traces the history of the Sephardic and converso (converted) Jews from their Golden Age to the twenty-first century, in both the land they left behind and in the lands they later settled. Documents, maps, paintings, and objects illuminate the history of Sephardic Jews from Spain to Mexico to New Mexico.

About this title

About the Author:

Josef Diaz is the curator of the Southwest and Mexican Colonial Art and History Collections at the New Mexico History Museum. He is the editor of the exhibition catalogue The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States/El Hilo de la Memoria: Espana y los Estados Unidos and the author and editor of TheArtandLegacyofBernardoMierayPacheco: New Spain's Explorer, Cartographer, and Artist.

Review:

"The book's geographic and chronological scope, the elegance of the essays, the depth of the scholarship, and the richness of the visual material make it an important contribution to scholarly and popular literature."

--New Mexico Historical Review

About this edition

• Publisher: SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1934491519
• ISBN 13: 9781934491515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228