Author : Seth D. Kunin
Release : 2023-07-25
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 582/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book by : Seth D. Kunin
Download or read book Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book written by Seth D. Kunin. This book was released on 2023-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Although the manuscript remains unpublished, this book utilizes quotations and excepts to enable the reader to have a good understanding of Carrasco’s voice.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.