The Jews of Colonial Mexico
1963; Duke University Press; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1215/00182168-43.1.95
ISSN1527-1900
Autores Tópico(s)Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity
ResumoT HE STORY of the Jews of Mexico is yet to be written; for the modern era there are a few reports and magazine articles, and for the colonial period there are a few biographical sketches and several narrative accounts of incidents of persecution. These do not tell the whole story. B. Lewin 's Martires y Conquistadores Judios en la AmericaEspaiial is a series of sketches of individuals, four of whom resided in Mexico. Examples of the efforts to relate Jews to the panorama of a larger history are Cecil Roth's History of the Marranos,2 Herejias y supersticiones en la Nueva Espania, by Julio Jimenez Rueda,3 History of the Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies, by Henry C. Lea,4 and Ilistoria del Tribunal de la Inquisicion, by Jose Toribio Medina.5 There are a few others which will be mentioned later. As late as 1907 little was known about the Jews in colonial Mexico, since books such as Mexico a traves de los siglos,6 by Riva Palacio, and Mexico viejo7 by Luis Gonza'lez Obregon, were not widely distributed or read, although the former was cited in an article in the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society.8
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