Living in Silverado : secret Jews in the silver mining towns of colonial Mexico / David M. Gitlitz.
"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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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2019]
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Table of 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.