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1038944
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b793314
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Hordes, Stanley M.
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To the end of the earth : : a history of the crypto-Jews of New Mexico /\ Stanley M. Hordes.
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©2005.
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1 online resource (xxi, 348 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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023112936X
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: 0231503180
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: 9780231129367
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: 9780231503181
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0231129378
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9780231129374
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-329) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Jews-- Cultural assimilation.
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Jews-- Identity.
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Jews-- New Mexico-- History.
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Marranos-- Social life and customs.
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Marranos-- New Mexico-- History.
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Sephardim-- New Mexico-- History.
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Ethnic relations.
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HISTORY-- State Local.
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Jews-- Cultural assimilation.
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Jews-- Identity.
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Jews.
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Marranos-- Social life and customs.
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Marranos.
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RELIGION-- Judaism-- General.
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Sephardim.
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New Mexico, Ethnic relations.
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New Mexico.
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| Dewey Classification
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978.9/004924
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F805.J5H67 2005eb
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