THE HIDDEN JEWS OF NEW MEXICO BIBLIOGRAPHY
There is no single comprehensive text on the hidden Jews of New Mexico. The most detailed current material specifically about the New Mexico crypto-Jews is contained in our radio programs and several newspaper and magazine articles which have been published since the first radio program was aired in 1988. These books are on closely related subjects.

SUGGESTED READINGS
Homero Aridjis, 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile, Summit Books, NY 1991

Eliyahu Ashtor, The Jews of Moslem Spain, 3 vols; Jewish Publication Society, Phila, 1974-1985

Trudi Alexi, The Mezuzah in the Madonna’s Foot, Harper/Collins, New York 1994

Yitzhak Baer, A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, 2 vols; The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1971

Fra. Angelico Chavez, Origins of New Mexico Families in the Spanish Colonial Period 1598-1820, Historical Society of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1954

Martin Cohen, The Martyr: The Story of a Secret Jew and the Mexican Inquisition, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1973

Jane Gerber, The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience, The Free Press/MacMillan, New York, 1992

David Gitlitz, Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews, Jewish
Publication Society, 1996, A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of the Spain’s Secret Jews, St. Martin’s Press, New York 1999 (w/Linda Davidson)

Richard Greenleaf, The Mexican Inquisition of the Sixteen Century, U. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque

Ramón Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1991

Alexandre Herculano, History of the Origin and Establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal, KTAV Publishing, New York, 1972

Stanley Hordes, The Crypto-Jewish Community of New Spain, 1620-1649: A Collective Biography, PhD Dissertation, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1980

Faye Kellerman, The Quality of Mercy, William Morrow, New York, 1989

John Kessel, Kiva, Cross and Crown: The Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540-1840.

Seymour Liebman, The Jews in New Spain: Faith, Flame, and the Inquisition, U/Miami Press, Coral Gables

Barnet Litvinoff, 1492: The Decline of Medievalism and the Rise of the Modern Age, Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY 1991

B. Netanyahu, The Origins of the Inquisition in 15th Century Spain, Random House, New York, 1995

David Nidel, "Modern Descendants of Conversos in New Mexico," Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly, Vol. XVI No. 3, pp. 194-292.

Harriet and Fred Rochlin, Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West, Houghton
Mifflin Co, New York, 1984

Cecil Roth, A History of the Marranos, Sepher-Hermon Press 1932, reprinted
Schocken Books, New York, 1974, Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1978

France Scholes, Troublous Times in New Mexico, 1659-1670, AMS Press, New York 1977

Mark Simmons, New Mexico, A Bicentennial History, Norton, New York, 1977

Robert Singerman, The Jews in Spain and Portugal, Garland Publishing, New York 1975

Henry J. Tobias, A History of the Jews in New Mexico, U. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1990

David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1992

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