Living in Silverado

Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico

David M. Gitlitz

• Editorial: University of New Mexico Press
• Año: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780826360809
• Categoría: Ciencias sociales
• Categoría: Estudios judíos

In this thoroughly researched work, David M. Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico's silver mining towns. Previous studies of sixteenth-century Mexican crypto-Jews focus on the merchant community centered in Mexico City, but here Gitlitz looks beyond Mexico's major population center to explore how clandestine religious communities were established in the reales, the hinterland mining camps, and how they differed from those of the capital in their struggles to retain their Jewish identity in a world dominated economically by silver and religiously by the Catholic Church. In Living in Silverado Gitlitz paints an unusually vivid portrait of the lives of Mexico's early settlers. Unlike traditional scholarship that has focused mainly on macro issues of the silver boom, Gitlitz closely analyzes the complex workings of the haciendas that mined and refined silver, and in doing so he provides a wonderfully detailed sense of the daily experiences of Mexico's early secret Jews.

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Beginnings in the Raya de Portugal
• Chapter 2. Going to Mexico
• Chapter 3. The Castellano’s Jewish Life in Mexico City in the 1530s and 1540s
• Chapter 4. Tomás’s First Mine
• Chapter 5. Tomás de Fonseca’s Pachuca Mine and the Mining Revolution
• Chapter 6. Tomás’s Mine in Tlalpujahua
• Chapter 7. Tomás de Fonseca Reconnects
• Chapter 8. The Portuguese Come to America
• Chapter 9. From Solitary Worship to Community
• Chapter 10. The Taxco Miners
• Chapter 11. The Jewish Life of the Taxco Miners
• Chapter 12. Pachuca and Manuel de Lucena’s General Store
• Chapter 13. Lucena’s Judaizing Community in Mexico City and Pachuca
• Chapter 14. Judaizing from Tlalpujahua
• Chapter 15. Destruction and Survival
• Chapter 16. Some Conclusions
• Appendix 1. Origins and Arrivals
• Appendix 2. Holiday Observances
• Appendix 3. Enríquez-Lucena Holiday Attendees
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index