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The terms converso and judaizante are often used for descendants of Spanish Jews (the Sephardi, or Sefarditas as they are sometimes called), who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There are few, if any, archival documents that prove the existence of...

California Stories of Pickers, Builders, and Healers is a description of pickers, builders, and healers who left their imprint on an old California railroad town from the 1930s to the present century. Each character described contributed to the community in a colorful way that made the town distinctly part of the California legacy.

Striking, inexplicable stories circulate among the people of Nuevo Leon in northern Mexico. Stories of conversos (converted Jews) who fled the Inquisition in Spain and became fabulously wealthy in Mexico. Stories of women and children buried in walls and under houses. Stories of an entire, secret city hidden under modern-day Monterrey. All these stories have no place or corroboration in the official histories of Nuevo Leon.

In this pioneering ethnography, Marie Theresa Hernandez explores how the folktales of Nuevo Leon encode aspects of Nuevolenese identity that have been...

An old fiddler and a discarded rocking horse discover their true worth on Christmas Eve. A miracle occurs for both of them when they experience the Lord's birth. Written to the hymn, "O Holy Night," the fiddler and the rocking horse find hope and love on the most holy night of the year.

The terms converso and judaizante are often used for descendants of Spanish Jews (the Sephardi, or Sefarditas as they are sometimes called), who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There are few, if any, archival documents that prove the existence of...