Sephardic Jews, conversos and crypto-Jews in New Spain and independent Mexico.
The history of conversos and crypto-Jews in Mexico has been reconstructed over decades by historians, genealogists, and geneticists. The works below are the pillars of that effort -- each illuminates a different aspect of the Sephardic experience in the New World.
The Jews in New Spain: Faith, Flame, and the Inquisition
Seymour B. Liebman
University of Miami Press, 1970
The Martyr: Luis de Carvajal, a Secret Jew in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Martin A. Cohen
Jewish Publication Society, 1973
La vida entre el judaismo y el cristianismo en la Nueva Espana, 1580-1606
Eva Alexandra Uchmany
FCE / AGN, 1992
Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews
David Gitlitz
University of New Mexico Press, 2002
To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico
Stanley M. Hordes
Columbia University Press, 2005
