To the end of the earth : a history of the crypto-Jews of New Mexico /
Stanley M. Hordes explores the remarkable story of crypto-Jews and the tenuous preservation of Jewish rituals and traditions in Mexico and New Mexico over the past five hundred years. He follows the crypto-Jews from their origins in medieval Spain and Portugal to their efforts to escape persecution...
| Основен автор: | Hordes, Stanley M. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
℗♭2005.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=141367 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
To the end of the earth. |
| Резюме: |
Stanley M. Hordes explores the remarkable story of crypto-Jews and the tenuous preservation of Jewish rituals and traditions in Mexico and New Mexico over the past five hundred years. He follows the crypto-Jews from their origins in medieval Spain and Portugal to their efforts to escape persecution by migrating to the New World and settling in the far reaches of the northern Mexican frontier. Drawing on individual biographies, family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a richly detailed account of the economic, social, and religious lives of cryp. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxi, 348 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-329) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0231503180 9780231503181 9780231129367 023112936X |