“Crypto-Jews of New Mexico and Cape Verde: Long-Lost Cousins?” free online presentation by anthropologist Alma Gottlieb, Ph.D. will be held on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from 1:00-2:00 pm (Mountain Daylight Time) and is sponsored by the School for Advanced Research (SAR), Santa Fe, New Mexico. In recent years, formerly crypto-Jews of New Mexico (and elsewhere) have, in different ways, embraced their families’ long-hidden identities. While the basic outlines of their stories are now known, many secrets remain. Among the most intriguing is a little-known connection to the West African island nation of Cape Verde. Since 2006, Dr. Alma Gottlieb has been studying the lives of Cape Verdeans with Jewish ancestry who now live in a global diaspora. In this talk, she will explore how the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions produced surprising Afro-Jewish histories that link New Mexico to West Africa. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor Emerita Alma Gottlieb is an SAR Visiting Scholar in Anthropology. For more information contact SAR at 505-954-7200 or info@sarsf.org.