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Essay My Hand on His Shoulder: A Descendant of Crypto-Jews Inserts Herself into the Historical Record Kathleen Alcalá June 21, 2021
Fiction Doña Gracia’s Secret: The Adventures of an Extraordinary Jewish Woman in the Renaissance Marilyn Froggatt
Nonfiction The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture Dalia Kandiyoti
Interview Crypto-Jews and Autobiographical Animals: Part 3 of a 3‑Part Conversation This week father and son, neighbors in Brookline, Massachusetts and longtime collaborators, David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer discuss Dinner with Stalin… Maxim D. Shrayer July 10, 2014
Nonfiction Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico David M. Gitlitz
Essay Your Graphic Novel and Mine Earlier this week, Ilan Stavans wrote about the problem with academic writing and asked: Is there a Jewish literary renaissance? He has been blogging here… Ilan Stavans December 28, 2012
Recommended Reading Crypto-Judaism Reading List Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn honor of next week’s JBC/Jewcy Twitter Book Club with Doreen Carvajal (The Forgetting River), we’ve created a “Crypto-Judaism”… Naomi Firestone-Teeter October 15, 2012
Nonfiction Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
Essay Genetic Memory: Feeling Jewish Earlier this week, Doreen Carvajal wrote about trying to recover her family’s secret identity and how to unlock and preserve memories. She has been blogging… Doreen Carvajal August 17, 2012
Essay Unlocking Memories Earlier this week, Doreen Carvajal wrote about trying to recover her family’s secret identity. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Doreen Carvajal August 15, 2012
Essay Hunting Family Ghosts Doreen Carvajal’s first book, The Forgetting River, is about her search to recover her Catholic family’s hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in a mystical white… Doreen Carvajal August 13, 2012
