Don’t Drink the Chocolate; Domestic Slavery and the Exigencies of Fasting for Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
This paper examines some of the elements of the identity of people who secretly practiced certain Judaic rituals in seventeenth-century Mexico. It is drawn from research on an extensive project that is based on a close reading of the testimonial records of more than a hundred individuals who were...
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Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos
2005
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| Zusammenfassung: | This paper examines some of the elements of the identity of people who secretly practiced certain Judaic rituals in seventeenth-century Mexico. It is drawn from research on an extensive project that is based on a close reading of the testimonial records of more than a hundred individuals who were accused of and prosecuted for Jewish heresy by the Mexican Holy Office of the Inquisition in the 1640s. The second quarter of the seventeenth century was a time of troubles and transformations in t... |
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