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To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico
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by Stanley M. Hordes
Sales Rank: 717872
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List Price: $41.50
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 376 pages
Published by: Columbia University Press July 29, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 023112936X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0231129367
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
" To the End of the Earth is a true magnum opus and a fitting conclusion to decades of research." -- David Caffey
"For those tracking family histories, this may prove invaluable For any reader interested in how culture survives, this book is an inspiring one." -- New Mexico
"For any reader interested in how culture survives, this book is an inspiring one." -- New Mexico Magazine
"The most extensively researched book on the subject to date a compelling sociological study. " -- Ze'ev Glicenstein, The Canadian Jewish News
"This book, honestly researched and gorgeously written, can enlarge understanding of the troubled road followed by our evolving Western civilization." -- Marc Simmons, Santa Fe New Mexican
"A compelling sociological study." -- Bill Gladstone, AVOTAYNU
"This is a well told and stunningly researched detective story." -- David J. Webber, Western Historical Quarterly
"Remarkable-even astonishing-though, that we have had to wait until 2005 for a book to appear on a topic that is so intrinsically interesting and that so directly links North American history with that of the Iberian Peninsula." -- Hispanic American Historical Review
"Hordes builds a compelling case that can not be easily dismissed. " -- Dr. Fred Reiss, The Midwest Book Review
"Hordes has made an important contribution to our understanding of the religious and ethnic diversity of the Southwest and of the force that the beliefs and practices he has brought to light continues to exert in the lives of the people of the region." -- Thomas M. Cohen, The Americas
"[Hordes] reasons from past to present, and the present back to the past, constructing a message about the role of history in understanding how we see ourselves and how others see us." -- El Palacio
Product Review
"Like a skilled tracker, Hordes pursues a prey at pains to cover its tracks, linking the bold 15th- and 16th-century persecution of Iberian Jews to a faint crypto-Jewish persistence in 21st-century New Mexico. Original, persuasive, humane." -- John Kessell, University of New Mexico, author of Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
Reader Reviews
Thesis: Many of the Spanish settlers of New Mexico were either secretely practising Jews or recent converts. Through the ensuing centuries, some kept up tradition and practice of their Hebrew faith, in all or part. I heard this hypothesis when I first moved to the Land of Enchantment in 1979. Most locals took it as likely. However, "studies" on the subject were mainly collections of anecdotes of familes that did not eat pork or that played with draedels in December but didn't know why. Stanley Hordes has done scholarship a real service with his meticulous, well-documented, and systematic research, as presented in To The End of the Earth. Rather than rushing into anecdotes, he first gives a broad backdrop of the history of Judaism in Iberia and the political and religious upheavals there in the 13th through 16th centuries. Having set the stage, Hordes then follows families of "new Christians" to Mexico. Through an examination of correspondence, records of the Holy Office (Inquisition) and other documents, he traces the likely practice of crypto-Judaism in Old Mexico. Only then does he set forth north of the Rio Bravo to see the fate of some likely Jewish or formerly Jewish families, trace their practices, and scour for physical evidence among a group that was reticent to leave records of what was long an illegal practice. Hordes wraps up nicely with not only the family stories but with DNA and blood protein studies. He falls short in actually finding evidence such as hidden synagogues or secret Torahs, but he certainly paints a compelling picture that many of the Hispano settlers of New Mexico were, at the very least, reluctant conversos. This is an engrossing and well-referenced work for any serious scholar. While not light reading, it is also not too challenging for a non-anthropologist. By all means, if the thesis is of interest to you, you should order this book.
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