Format:
Online-Ressource (373 p.)
ISBN:
9780231129374
Content:
Stanley M. Hordes explores the remarkable story of crypto-Jews and the tenuous preservation of Jewish rituals and traditions in Mexico and New Mexico over the past five hundred years. He follows the crypto-Jews from their origins in medieval Spain and Portugal to their efforts to escape persecution by migrating to the New World and settling in the far reaches of the northern Mexican frontier. Drawing on individual biographies, family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a richly detailed account of the economic, social, and religious lives of cryp
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Origins of Crypto-Judaism on the Iberian Peninsula, 200 B.C.E.-1492; 2. The Crypto-Jewish Experience in New Spain, 1521-1649; 3. The Origins of the First Crypto-Jewish Settlement in New Mexico: Luis de Carvajal and the Failed Colony of Gaspar Castano de Sosa, 1579-1591; 4. Juan de Onate and the Participation of Crypto-Jews in the First Permanent Colony in New Msico, 1595-1607; 5. Franciscans, the Inquisition, and Secret Judaism in New Mexico, 1610-1680; 6. The Role of Crypto-Jews in the Life of the New Mexico Colony, 1680-1846
,
7. Adjustments to Anglo-American Society, 1846-19508. Vestiges of Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico at the Turn of teh Twenty-first Century; Appendix. Pemphigus Vulgaris Among Hispanos in New Mexico and Its Possible Connection with Crypto-Jewish Populations; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231503181
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231129374
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe To the End of the Earth : A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
Bookmarklink
