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The Jews of Old Santa Fe: New Mexico History Museum’s Jewish Roots Walking Tour
By Jennifer Levin Some of the first Jews in what is now the United States called Santa Fe home. Crypto-Jews were a subset of Sephardic Conversos, forced to convert to Catholicism during the century preceding the Edict of Expulsion. The Spanish Inquisition, established in 1478, had already been persecuting