Nan Rubin

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Suggested Readings
The Hidden Jews of New Mexico
Aridjis, Homero - 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile, Summit  Books, NY  1991

Ashtor, Eliyahu  - The Jews of Moslem Spain, 3 vols; Jewish Pub. Soc/America, Phil.  1974-1985

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

Baer, Yitzhak - A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, 2 vols; Jewish Pub. Soc/America,  Phil. 1971

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

       Society of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1954

Cohen, Martin - The Martyr: The Story of a Secret Jew and the Mexican Inquisition, Jewish Pub. Soc/America,

       Philadelphia, 1973

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

Gitlitz, David - 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)

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

Gutiérrez, Ramón - When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico,

        1500-1846,  Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1991

Herculano, Alexandre - History of the Origin and Establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal,  KTAV Publishing,

         New York, 1972

Hordes, Stanley - To the Ends of the Earth: a History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, Columbia  U. Press,
         New York, 2005

          - TheCrypto-Jewish Community of New Spain, 1620-1649: A Collective Biography, PhD  Dissertation,

            Tulane University, New Orleans, 1980

Hertz, Cary - New Mexico's Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory,  U. of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe,  2007

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

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

Kunin, Seth - Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews, Columbia U. Press,

           New York, 2009

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

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

Nidel, David - "Modern Descendants of Conversos in New Mexico", Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly,

           Vol. XVI No. 3, pp. 194-292.

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

Roth,Cecil - A History of the Marranos, reprinted Schocken Books, New York , 1974

            - Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1978

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

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

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

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

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