© Columbia University Press
Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews
June, 2009
Cloth, 288 pages, 10 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14218-2
$45.00
/ £31.00
"Seth D. Kunin's book fills a large void in the academic literature treating crypto-Judaism and is an extremely significant contribution to the field. This work should attract the attention of a wide audience, both academic and lay alike. For academicians in the fields of social science and history, as well as university libraries, this book should be a requirement for their shelves." — Stanley M. Hordes, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico, and author of To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico
"In this small and new field, there is a shortage of book-length studies by academic authors. This volume is the first to include a long-term anthropological research component, with a sample far greater in size than those of previous studies. The crypto-Jewish theme is important to many, both within the communities involved and among those interested in the problem of identity. Seth D. Kunin presents a compelling methodology for addressing the proof value of many of the practices and phenomena and for assessing the importance of such proofs to the communities and the value of previous research. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in crypto-Jews or in the complex question of emerging communities of identity." — Seth Ward, University of Wyoming