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Among the cities in Mexico, Monterrey has a mystique all its own marked by the enduring "Jewish question" regarding its founding in 1596. The historian, Vito Al

Herz offers a photographic tribute to the descendents of New Mexico's secret Jews.

This book contains seven generations of descendants of Diego Tremiño de Velasco and Francisca de Alcocer. On June 13, 1538, Francisca along with her sons, Dieg

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 minin

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 eat