Title Living in Silverado : secret Jews in the silver mining towns of colonial Mexico / David M. Gitlitz

Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) : illustrations Contents Beginnings in the Raya de Portugal -- Going to Mexico -- The Castellanos's Jewish life in Mexico City in the 1530s and 1540s -- Tomás's first mine: Ayoteco -- Tomás de Fonseca's Pachuca Mine and the mining revolution -- Tomás's mine in Tlalpujahua -- Tomás de Fonseca reconnects -- The Portuguese come to America -- From solitary worship to community -- The Taxco miners -- The Jewish life of the Taxco miners -- Pachuca and Manuel de Lucena's general store -- Lucena's judaizing community in Mexico City and Pachuca -- Judaizing from Tlalpujahua -- Destruction and survival -- Some conclusions -- Origins and arrivals -- Holiday observations -- Enriquez-Lucena holiday attendees Summary "In this painstakingly researched study David Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico's silver mining towns. His narrative paints a vivid portrait of their struggles to retain their identity in a world dominated economically by silver and religiously by the Catholic Church. Most studies of 16th-century Mexican crypto-Jews have focused on the merchant community centered in Mexico City, but Gitlitz looks beyond Mexico's major population center to explore how clandestine religious communities were established in the resales, the hinterland mining camps. Similarly, Gitlitz challenges traditional scholarship that has focused solely on macro issues. He combines those issues with close analysis of the complex workings of the haciendas that mined and refined silver to provide a wonderfully detailed sense of the daily experiences of secret Jews"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Crypto-Jews -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century Jews -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century Silver miners -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century Silver mines and mining -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century Crypto-Jews Jews Silver miners Silver mines and mining Mexico Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019009636 ISBN 9780826360809 0826360807

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