A history of the Jews in New Mexico / Henry J. Tobias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobias, Henry J. (Henry Jack)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--New Mexico--History.

Jews.

New Mexico--Ethnic relations.

New Mexico.

Jews--history.

Nuevo México, EE. UU--Relaciones étnicas.

Ethnic relations.

Medical Subjects:

Jews--history.

Local Subjects:

Nuevo México, EE. UU--Relaciones étnicas.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1990.

Summary:

Ch. I (pp. 7-21) traces the Jewish presence in the state of New Mexico to the Spanish period when the region was colonized, between 1598-1680. Persecuted by the Inquisition in colonial Mexico in the 1590s and 1640s, many Portuguese Conversos fled north to New Leon and New Mexico to seek refuge. States that, until recently, many New Mexican Hispanics have been unaware that they observe Jewish traditions. Some have complained of being called "killers of Christ". The present Jewish population is composed mainly of descendants of German Jews who emigrated after 1846-48. In New Mexico there were almost no manifestations of antisemitism, apart from sporadic attacks against Jews (e.g. in 1867) in the press, which showed that personal politics or Jewish economic prominence could elicit latent antisemitism. In 1982 a controversy broke out about the use of the swastika and Nazi-like uniforms in the State University's yearbook, and in 1967 Reies Tijerina, a Christian fundamentalist, accused Jews of having stripped the Hispanics of their ancestral lands. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).

Contents:

Hispanic New Mexico and its Jewish question

Migration and settlement: the German Jews, 1846-60

The golden age of the German-Jewish merchants, 1860-80

A generation of transition, 1880-1900

The era of quiet change, 1900-40

The explosive era, 1940-80.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Tobias, Henry Jack. History of the Jews in New Mexico.

ISBN:

082631225X

9780826312259

0826313906

9780826313904

OCLC:

21875980