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SUMMARY:A New Map: Luis de Carvajal’s Archive\, Retold
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Rachel Kaufman\, Ph.D. Candidate in Latin American a
 nd Jewish history\, University of California\, Los Angeles. Recipient of t
 he 2025-26 Kenneth Karmiole Graduate Research Fellowship\n\nLuis de Carvaj
 al el Mozo (the Younger) was a crypto-Jew from Benavente who traveled to N
 ew Spain in the late 1500s and was arrested and ultimately killed\, alongs
 ide his mother and sisters\, by the Mexican Inquisition tribunal. During h
 is time in Mexico and in the Inquisition’s prisons\, he wrote theologica
 l and mystical treatises as well as a memoir. His story has been canonized
  in Jewish Studies literature and in recent public memory from Mexico to t
 he U.S. borderlands. From anthropological missions of the 1940s to debates
  surrounding the authenticity of those claiming crypto-Jewish descent in M
 exico\, Latin America\, and the U.S. Southwest\, the figure of Luis has se
 rved as a canonical center—a nostalgic origin point for the history of J
 ews’ arrival in the Americas\, a reassurance for some crypto-Jews retrac
 ing their Jewish ancestry back to Sefarad\, a comfort for twentieth-centur
 y Jewish scholars looking beyond the borders of Europe to find instances o
 f Jewish survival\, and a means to an often-unnuanced story of Jewish vict
 imhood and martyrdom in Latin America.\n\nAnd yet there remains a crucial 
 story clearly visible in Luis’s writings and in the colonial archive but
  untold by scholars of crypto-Jewish\, Jewish\, or Latin American history.
  If reexamined\, the canonized story of the Carvajal family reveals histor
 ies of mining\, gendered and racialized violence\, social hierarchy\, and 
 environmental change in colonial Mexico. This crypto-Jewish family’s sto
 ry provides a clear example of multidirectional violence in the colonial p
 eriod and of conversos’ complex position amidst various vectors of power
 . In between Luis’s and scholars’ rememberings and forgettings lie the
  fissures of colonial history—the voices of Indigenous actors\, intricac
 ies of New Spain’s labor system\, and episodes of environmental destruct
 ion and adaptation amidst conquest and economic expansion. What historical
  narratives does a rhetoric of nostalgia\, purity\, and victimhood preclud
 e? Kaufman reenters Luis de Carvajal’s famous memoir to complicate the s
 tory of Jews in the Americas.\n\nRachel Kaufman is a poet\, teacher\, and 
 Ph.D. candidate in Latin American and Jewish history at UCLA. Her work exp
 lores diasporic memory\, transmission\, and violence and argues for the po
 wer of poetry as historical method. Her dissertation places conversas in t
 heir colonial context in New Spain\, examining global trade networks\, the
  transatlantic slave trade\, and cross-community cultural and religious ex
 change amongst women. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming on poets.org
  and in The Georgia Review\, Harvard Review\, AGNI\, Los Angeles Review o
 f Books\, Otiyot (Ayin Press)\, Jabberwock Review\, Rethinking History\, T
 he Yale Historical Review\, Diagram\, Comedia Performance\, Frontiers: A J
 ournal of Women Studies\, and Colonial Latin American Review. The author 
 of a poetry collection\, Many to Remember (2021)\, her work has been suppo
 rted by the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation\, Huntington Library\, Clark Libra
 ry\, Willapa Bay AiR\, and Fulbright-Hays Program.\n\n\n\nThe lecture will
  take place via Zoom. To register to attend\, please fill out the form her
 e \n\n\n\nImage: Barba\, Alvaro Alonso\, The First Book of the Art of Met
 tals\, in Which is Declared the Manner of Their Generation and the Concomi
 tants of Them. / Written in Spanish in the Year 1640. Tr. into English in 
 the Year 1669. Translated by Edward Mountagu. London\, Printed for S. Mear
 ne\, 1670.  Clark Library\, TN144 .B22E*\n\n&nbsp\;
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