New Mexico's Crypto-Jews

Cary Herz, 1947-2008, was a professional photographer and a New Mexico photo correspondent for the New York Times. She worked with a variety of editorial clients, including TIME, PC World, People, Ms., Garden Design, Hispanic Business, The Discovery Channel, The Dallas Morning News, and The Houston Chronicle's Texas Magazine. Ori Z. Soltes is a professorial lecturer in theology and art history, Georgetown University. Mona Hernandez, a descendant of crypto-Jews, resides in Santa Clara County, California.

[Cary] Herz's photography book is the first visual exploration of the descendants of Jews who fled the Iberian Peninsula during the Inquisition and traveled with Spanish colonial settlers to what is today New Mexico. [New Mexico's Crypto-Jews] introduces a unique community whose Jewish identity is grounded in the Catholicism that characterizes the traditions of the American Southwest. - Forward.com ""[New Mexico's Crypto-Jews] is a welcome prize.... The fact that Herz is a descendant of Holocaust survivors means that she brings a rare and poignant Jewish sensitivity to a subject that is more often examined through Hispanic lenses.... Concise essays and commentaries accompany Herz's striking photographs of modern residents of New Mexico and Colorado who retain tatters and shards of Jewish religiosity and custom."" - Intermountain Jewish Times