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By Editorial Intern Rachel Kaufman In my previous essay, The Myth of la Llave in crypto-Jewish Poetry, I demonstrated New Mexican crypto-Jewish poets’ use of the myth of la llave (key) as a means to identity reclamation. Crypto-Jews Gloria Trujillo,… Continue Reading →
by contributing editors Anne Schult and Jonas Knatz
A Thought Experiment in the History of Travel By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich I seem to recall a history teachers in grade school telling us that in the Middle Ages, the average person never traveled more than seven miles from… Continue Reading →
In Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Nasser Zakariya , Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, about his book A Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings (University of Chicago Press, 2017). The book explores how scientists and their… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Prof. Andrew Newman
By Editorial Intern Rachel Kaufman In a 1996 Sage Junior College museum exhibition entitled “Llave: A Key to the Secret,” New Mexican poets, artists, and historians celebrated Sephardic Judaism’s presence in the New World by means of the myth of… Continue Reading →
