The Crypto Jews of the American Southwest 2012-04-27
"Things are not the way they seem"

She became so fascinated with the subject that she proceeded to write a book that traces the history of the Sephardic Jews from their golden age to their post-Columbian diaspora. Her work highlights achievements in science, medicine, philosophy, arts, and the economy in both the land they left behind and in the lands they later settled.
Several significant Sephardic Jews are profiled in detail, and later chapters explore the increasing restrictions on Jews prior to expulsion, the divergent fates of two diaspora communities (in Brazil and the Ottoman Empire), and the enduring legacy of Sephardic history.