Literanista
March 5, 2010
I came across this older blog post recently:
Former New Mexico State Historian Dr. Stanley M. Hordes has written extensively on this, including the excellent book, “To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico.”
Hordes, who received his Ph.D. in Colonial Mexican History from Tulane University, did his doctoral dissertation on the crypto-Jewish community of Mexico in the seventeenth century. Other great books on the topic:
* “The Marrano Legacy: A Contemporary Crypto-Jewish Priest Reveals Secrets of His Double Life”
* “A History of the Jews in New Mexico”
* “Remnants of Crypto-Jews Among Hispanic Americans”
* “Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews”
* “Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews”
* “The Mezuzah in the Madonna’s Foot: Marranos and Other Secret Jews–A Woman Discovers Her Spiritual Heritage”Hordes heads the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, which promotes the research, study, and scholarship of the Jewish heritage of many Hispanics in America.
My family is Puerto Rican and today thoroughly Christian but family lore is replete with stories of Jewish ancestors fleeing Spain during the persecution of Jews. One of the family names, Cardona, reportedly came from adopting the name of the ship transporting some of my ancestors, who feared being recognized as Jews. Thanks for the listing of reading sources on this topic.
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