In this month's Smithsonian magazine, Jeff Wheelwright writes how an aggressive form of breast cancer attests that some Hispanic Catholics from the San Luis Valley descend from Jewish ancestry. Wheelwright speaks with Ryan Warner. View images of Crypto-Jewish tradition.
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