A History of the Jews in New Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Jews in New Mexico write by Henry Jack Tobias. This book was released on 1990. A History of the Jews in New Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ch. I (pp. 7-21) traces the Jewish presence in the state of New Mexico to the Spanish period when the region was colonized, between 1598-1680. Persecuted by the Inquisition in colonial Mexico in the 1590s and 1640s, many Portuguese Conversos fled north to New Leon and New Mexico to seek refuge. States that, until recently, many New Mexican Hispanics have been unaware that they observe Jewish traditions. Some have complained of being called "killers of Christ". The present Jewish population is composed mainly of descendants of German Jews who emigrated after 1846-48. In New Mexico there were almost no manifestations of antisemitism, apart from sporadic attacks against Jews (e.g. in 1867) in the press, which showed that personal politics or Jewish economic prominence could elicit latent antisemitism. In 1982 a controversy broke out about the use of the swastika and Nazi-like uniforms in the State University's yearbook, and in 1967 Reies Tijerina, a Christian fundamentalist, accused Jews of having stripped the Hispanics of their ancestral lands.
To the End of the Earth
To the End of the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To the End of the Earth write by Stanley M. Hordes. This book was released on 2005-08-30. To the End of the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and abstained from eating pork. Puzzling over the matter, Hordes realized that these practices might very well have been passed down through the centuries from early crypto-Jewish settlers in New Spain. After extensive research and hundreds of interviews, Hordes concluded that there was, in New Mexico and the Southwest, a Sephardic legacy derived from the converso community of Spanish Jews. In To the End of the Earth, 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 Jewish 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 (including those of colonial officials accused of secretly practicing Judaism), family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a richly detailed account of the economic, social and religious lives of crypto-Jews during the colonial period and after the annexation of New Mexico by the United States in 1846. While the American government offered more religious freedom than had the Spanish colonial rulers, cultural assimilation into Anglo-American society weakened many elements of the crypto-Jewish tradition. Hordes concludes with a discussion of the reemergence of crypto-Jewish culture and the reclamation of Jewish ancestry within the Hispano community in the late twentieth century. He examines the publicity surrounding the rediscovery of the crypto-Jewish community and explores the challenges inherent in a study that attempts to reconstruct the history of a people who tried to leave no documentary record.
New Mexico's Crypto-Jews
New Mexico's Crypto-Jews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Mexico's Crypto-Jews write by . This book was released on 2007. New Mexico's Crypto-Jews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Herz offers a photographic tribute to the descendents of New Mexico's secret Jews.
Jews in New Mexico Since World War II
Jews in New Mexico Since World War II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jews in New Mexico Since World War II write by Henry Jack Tobias. This book was released on 2008. Jews in New Mexico Since World War II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tobias explores the cultural and political influence of the New Mexico Jewish community since the Second World War.
To the End of the Earth
To the End of the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To the End of the Earth write by Stanley M. Hordes. This book was released on 2005. To the End of the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Drawing on individual biographies (including those of colonial officials accused of secretly practicing Judaism), family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a detailed account of the economic, social, and religious lives of crypto-Jews during the colonial period and after the annexation of New Mexico by the United States in 1846."--BOOK JACKET.
