Like I say, I don't believe New Mexico ever had many of them - perhaps none at all - but that doesn't mean the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico can't be an interesting topic for a book:
She had been intrigued by the state since visiting a friend in Santa Fe in 1979.
"There were lawyers (in Santa Fe then) who were raising goats," she said, still awed by an image so alien to a woman who had lived in Manhattan and photographed fires, sports and social events in New Jersey.
It was while taking pictures at the Congregation Montefiore (Jewish) Cemetery in Las Vegas, N.M., in 1985, that Herz heard about "the other people."
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