The Crypto-Jewish Community of New Spain, 1620-1649
| Author | : Stanley Mark Hordes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Inquisition |
| ISBN | : |
The Crypto Jewish Community Of New Spain 1620 1649
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The Jews in New Spain
| Author | : Seymour B. Liebman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Mexico was a colony of Spain from 1521 to 1821 and was then known as New Spain. The colony encompassed all of modern Mexico, Central America, the Philippines, and the southwestern portion of the present United States. Within this territory, Jewish people who had immigrated from Europe, the Canary Islands, the Azores, and the Middle East carried on their tradition virtually surreptitiously for almost three centuries. From 1521 on the Jews inhabited the area without interruption but--except for a few decades--the did so illegally. They had material gains and high posts in their command and stood to lose all, including their lives, if discovered to be adherents of the law of Moses. The Mexican Jew of today is not the descendant of the Jews of colonial times; Mexican Jewish history after 1821 involves new people and new communities. The branches of the Spanish Inquisition that reached into New Spain from 1521 to 1851 left a vast legacy of documents that are priceless to the historian. The trial records reveal in meticulous detail the search for heretics and their punishment in dramatic autos-da-fé but. more significantly, unfold the panorama of their lives. Professor Liebman has researched and translated many of the Inquisition documents, and through these and other sources, has defined, described, and analyzed the personalities, lives and customs of representative Hispanic Jews. Two outstanding families, those of Luis de Carvajal and Thomas Treviño de Sobremonte, are treated in full in separate chapters. Other chapters trace the colonists from their departure from Spain through their centuries of faith and flame in the New World. -- Jacket.
God's Jury
| Author | : Cullen Murphy |
| Publisher | : HMH |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2012-01-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0547607822 |
“From Torquemada to Guantánamo and beyond, Cullen Murphy finds the ‘inquisitorial impulse’ alive, and only too well, in our world” (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money). Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews—and with burning at the stake—its targets were more numerous, its techniques were more ambitious, and its effect on history has been greater than many understand. The Inquisition pioneered surveillance, censorship, and “scientific” interrogation. As time went on, its methods and mindset spread far beyond the Church to become tools of secular persecution. Traveling from freshly opened Vatican archives to the detention camps of Guantánamo to the filing cabinets of the Third Reich, the author of Are We Rome? “masterfully traces the social, legal and political evolution of the Inquisition and the inquisitorial process from its origins in late medieval Christian France to its eerily familiar, secular cousin in the modern world” (San Francisco Chronicle). “God’s Jury is a reminder, and we need to be constantly reminded, that the most dangerous people in the world are the righteous, and when they wield real power, look out. . . . Murphy wears his erudition lightly, writes with quiet wit, and has a delightful way of seeing the past in the present.” —Mark Bowden, author of Hue 1968 “Beautifully written, very smart, and devilishly engaging.” —The Boston Globe
Converts in New Spain
| Author | : Alicia Gojman Goldberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2020-04-17 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
This book, originally published in the 1980s is one of the pioneering studies of the Jewish population in Mexico. The author, Alicia Gojman not only has a long and outstanding career as a historian; she has also played a significant role in the culture of contemporary Mexican Jews. She has been the promoter of a cultural project that has managed to combine important documentary collections maintained in a vital center dedicated to the study and dissemination of the Judeo-Mexican culture. She has promoted far-reaching editorial projects, in which the memories, images, documents and contributions of generations of Jews in Mexico have been combined.Converts in New Spain, is a study about the Converts and Crypto-Jews who travelled along with conquerors and colonizers to the New World. 1492, the year of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, is the end of the history of Spanish Judaism and the beginning of the history of the convert in the Americas. The history of the converts in the New World starts with its discovery, since they themselves participated in the exploration and colonization in a much grater degree than in commonly acknowledged. As part of the Spanish society, they came to the Americas feeling like other Christian Spaniards, "chosen" by God to find in this New World, a New Jerusalem. Their integration to the colonial society was not easy, when they were asked for their "blood cleanness," or when they were harassed by the Inquisition Tribunal. However, these converts, participated in the economic, political, social and cultural development of New Spain. Originally published in Spanish by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, this is the first English edition.About the author: Alicia Gojman Goldberg was born in Mexico city. She has a PhD degree in History from UNAM, where she is a professor and researcher at the FES Acatlán. She has published over 20 books and 194 articles about Mexican and Jewish history.She is the Honorary Director of the Jewish Research and Documentation Center in Mexico; a member of the Mexican National Research System since 1984. She has received UNAM's Sor Juana in 2005, an Honorary Fellowship from Tel Aviv's university in 2006; the Cultural award from the Mexico-Israel Cultural Institute in 2007. The Anastasio Sarabia Award for Archival work in 2009. During her management as president of the Ashkenazi Community Documentation and Research Center she obtained the award as the best private archive awarded by the National Archive of Mexico and UNESCO's Memory of the World award in 2009.
The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800
| Author | : Paolo Bernardini |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 600 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781571814302 |
Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion.
To the End of the Earth
| Author | : Stanley M. Hordes |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2005-08-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0231503180 |
In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and abstained from eating pork. Puzzling over the matter, Hordes realized that these practices might very well have been passed down through the centuries from early crypto-Jewish settlers in New Spain. After extensive research and hundreds of interviews, Hordes concluded that there was, in New Mexico and the Southwest, a Sephardic legacy derived from the converso community of Spanish Jews. In To the End of the Earth, 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 Jewish 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 (including those of colonial officials accused of secretly practicing Judaism), family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a richly detailed account of the economic, social and religious lives of crypto-Jews during the colonial period and after the annexation of New Mexico by the United States in 1846. While the American government offered more religious freedom than had the Spanish colonial rulers, cultural assimilation into Anglo-American society weakened many elements of the crypto-Jewish tradition. Hordes concludes with a discussion of the reemergence of crypto-Jewish culture and the reclamation of Jewish ancestry within the Hispano community in the late twentieth century. He examines the publicity surrounding the rediscovery of the crypto-Jewish community and explores the challenges inherent in a study that attempts to reconstruct the history of a people who tried to leave no documentary record.
The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas
| Author | : Robert J. Ferry |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2024-07-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520377354 |
Combining traditional documentary research with new analytical strategies, Robert J. Ferry creates a rich, three-dimensional picture of early Caracas. His reconstitution and interpretation of important genealogical histories provide a model for historical studies of Latin American and other societies. Ferry’s work partially eclipses previously accepted ideas about colonial Caracas. He shows how the society was dominated by a commercial-agricultural elite and demonstrates that women were responsible for arranging marriages and maintaining family lineages, that marriages among first cousins were very common, and that elite residence was matrifocal. The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas focuses on the salient features of the society and economy: agriculture, commerce, and labor. The first section treats the seventeenth-century transition from Indian encomienda labor to African slave labor. The society created by slavery and the cacao trade in the eighteenth century is the main subject of the second section of the book. Throughout, Ferry leads the reader to a deeper understanding of the elite planters of Caracas, who were wheat farmers in the seventeenth century and cacao hacienda owners in the eighteenth. Ferry also explores how some families suceeded in retaining wealth and local authority from one generation to the next. That success is momentarily halted in the 1730s and 1740s, and the revolt of Juan Francisco de León in 1749 is viewed as a crisis of both the colony’s elite and the smallholder, immigrant class to which León himself belonged. The response to León’s rebellion represents a major effort on the part of the Spanish crown to restructure royal authority in the colony, arguably the first of the Bourbon reforms in the American colonies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
The Lima Inquisition
| Author | : Ana E. Schaposchnik |
| Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2015-10-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0299306143 |
The Holy Office of the Inquisition (a royal tribunal that addressed issues of heresy and offenses to morality) was established in Peru in 1570 and operated there until 1820. In this book, Ana E. Schaposchnik provides a deeply researched history of the Inquisition’s Lima Tribunal, focusing in particular on the cases of persons put under trial for crypto-Judaism in Lima during the 1600s. Delving deeply into the records of the Lima Tribunal, Schaposchnik brings to light the experiences and perspectives of the prisoners in the cells and torture chambers, as well as the regulations and institutional procedures of the inquisitors. She looks closely at how the lives of the accused—and in some cases the circumstances of their deaths—were shaped by actions of the Inquisition on both sides of the Atlantic. She explores the prisoners’ lives before and after their incarcerations and reveals the variety and character of prisoners’ religiosity, as portrayed in the Inquisition’s own sources. She also uncovers individual and collective strategies of the prisoners and their supporters to stall trials, confuse tribunal members, and attempt to ameliorate or at least delay the most extreme effects of the trial of faith. The Lima Inquisition also includes a detailed analysis of the 1639 Auto General de Fe ceremony of public penance and execution, tracing the agendas of individual inquisitors, the transition that occurred when punishment and surveillance were brought out of hidden dungeons and into public spaces, and the exposure of the condemned and their plight to an avid and awestricken audience. Schaposchnik contends that the Lima Tribunal’s goal, more than volume or frequency in punishing heretics, was to discipline and shape culture in Peru.
The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America
| Author | : David Sheinin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2019-06-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317945328 |
A current and comprehensive collection of articles on the Jewish presence in Latin America, this multidisciplinary volume draws on the research and analysis of some of the most prominent scholars in Latin American Jewish Studies from the United States, Canada, Israel, Mexico, and Argentina. These specialists in history, politics, anthropology, and literature present 19 essays, 15 of which are original, three reprinted, and one translated here for the first time from Spanish.The book will be of use to specialists in Latin American literature, immigration history, international relations, and Latin American politics, as well as those interested in Jewish history, literature, and society outside Latin America.
Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese
| Author | : Ruth Fine |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 697 |
| Release | : 2022-10-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110561115 |
This volume offers a thorough introduction to Jewish world literatures in Spanish and Portuguese, which not only addresses the coexistence of cultures, but also the functions of a literary and linguistic space of negotiation in this context. From the Middle Ages to present day, the compendium explores the main Jewish chapters within Spanish- and Portuguese-language world literature, whether from Europe, Latin America, or other parts of the world. No comprehensive survey of this area has been undertaken so far. Yet only a broad focus of this kind can show how diasporic Jewish literatures have been (and are ) – while closely tied to their own traditions – deeply intertwined with local and global literary developments; and how the aesthetic praxis they introduced played a decisive, formative role in the history of literature. With this epistemic claim, the volume aims at steering clear of isolationist approaches to Jewish literatures.
