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     <h2> Secrecy and Deceit</h2>
     <h2> Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews</h2>
     <strong>David M. Gitlitz</strong>
     <strong>David M. Gitlitz</strong>


<p>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.
David M. Gitlitz's comprehensive work examines the religious and social customs of the conversos, or crypto-Jews, exploring their historical context across Iberia and the New World. Despite its ambitious scope and extensive bibliographic research, the text faces challenges due to its broad generalizations and occasional lack of clarity regarding specific customs and practices. Gitlitz articulates the complexities surrounding the identities and experiences of conversos, highlighting both syncretism and pressures leading to assimilation, while providing a valuable resource for both scholars and novices in the field.
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<p> 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.</p>
 


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Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews

   David M. Gitlitz

David M. Gitlitz's comprehensive work examines the religious and social customs of the conversos, or crypto-Jews, exploring their historical context across Iberia and the New World. Despite its ambitious scope and extensive bibliographic research, the text faces challenges due to its broad generalizations and occasional lack of clarity regarding specific customs and practices. Gitlitz articulates the complexities surrounding the identities and experiences of conversos, highlighting both syncretism and pressures leading to assimilation, while providing a valuable resource for both scholars and novices in the field.

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