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To the End of the Earth : A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico
To the End of the Earth A History of the CryptoJews of New Mexico Author:Stanley M. Hordes Hordes narrates and analyzes the story of crypto-Jews from their Jewish origins in medieval Spain and Portugal, through their forced conversion in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, to their efforts to escape Inquisitorial persecution by migrating to the New World and, ultimately, to the far reaches of the northern Mexican frontier. Full of... more » rich detail about the lives of crypto-Jews, this book explores the tenuous preservation of Jewish rituals and traditions in Mexico and New Mexico over the past five hundred years.« less