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 mining towns. Previous studies of
sixteenth-century Mexican crypto-Jews focus on the merchant
community centered in Mexico City, but here Gitlitz looks beyond
Mexico's major population center to explore how clandestine
religious communities were established in the reales, the
hinterland mining camps, and how they differed from those of the
capital in their struggles to retain their Jewish identity in a
world dominated economically by silver and religiously by the
Catholic Church. In Living in Silverado Gitlitz paints an unusually
vivid portrait of the lives of Mexico's early Settlers. Unlike
traditional scholarship that has focused mainly on macro issues of
the silver boom, Gitlitz closely analyzes the complex workings of
the haciendas that mined and refined silver, and in doing so he
provides a wonderfully detailed sense of the daily experiences of
Mexico's early secret Jews.
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