Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews

Seth D. Kunin

June, 2009
Cloth, 288 pages, 10 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14218-2
$45.00 / £31.00

Introduction

1. Diversity and Complexity

2. The Case Against the Authenticity of Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico

3. The Case for the Authenticity of Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico

4. Ideal Types of Crypto-Jewish Identity

5. Crypto-Jewish Practice: Memory and Bricolage

6. A Postmodern Take on Crypto-Judaism

Conclusion

Theoretical Appendix. (Neo)-Structuralism: A Basis for Understanding the Transformative Use of Structure in Crypto-Jewish Culture

Notes

Bibliography

Related Subjects

• American Religion
• Judaism

About the Author

Seth D. Kunin is pro vice chancellor, arts and humanities, at the University of Durham. He received his B.A. from Columbia University and M.A. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and was awarded his Ph.D. in anthropology by the University of Cambridge. Kunin has been doing ethnographic research among the crypto-Jews in New Mexico for the past thirteen years. He has published a number of books on aspects of biblical and Jewish culture from an anthropological and structuralist perspective and has written about the development of theories of religion in such works as Themes and Issues in Judaism and Religion: The Modern Theories.

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