Living in Silverado : secret Jews in the silver mining towns of colonial Mexico /

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 a...

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Main Author: Gitlitz, David M. (David Martin) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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