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Friday, August 20, 2021

Rachel Kaufman - "Translating History through Poetry The Mexican Inquisition and Crypto-Jewish Memory" - 4:30pm-5:30pm PDT

 


Rachel Kaufman is a PhD student in History at UCLA, where she works on Latin American and Jewish history. Her current research focuses on crypto-Jewish memory practices in New Mexico and Mexico from the late 15th century to the 20th century. In 2020, she published an article on “Translating History” in Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. In 2021, she published her first poetry book, Many to Remember (Dos Madres Press), which unravels the histories of New Mexican crypto-Jews and the Mexican Inquisition alongside the poet’s own family histories.

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