Identity Shaped by History, Part 1

Rabbi Dr. Bejarano-Gutierrez introduces us to the history of Crypto-Jewish studies in his Round Table Talk titled Complex Jewish and Christian Identities. In Part 1 of this conversation, we explore the past to understand the complexities around understanding Identity. What happens when people try so hard to protect their version of truth that they actually make issues of Identity more complicated? This is the necessary complex foundation from which we branch into Jewish and Christian conversation in Part 2.