To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico

by Stanley M. Hordes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231129378
• ISBN13: 9780231129374
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"