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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 sil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gitlitz, David M. (David Martin) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.