David M. Gitlitz
David M. Gitlitz is a professor emeritus of Hispanic studies at the University of Rhode Island. His publications include Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews and The Lost Minyan (both from UNM Press).
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Secrecy and Deceit
The Religion of the Crypto-Jews
By David M. Gitlitz; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
Comprehensive history of crypto-Jewish beliefs and social customs.
- Copyright year: 2002
The Lost Minyan
University of New Mexico Press
This intricately woven tapestry of historical fiction, profiles ten Crypto-Jewish families coping with the trauma of living between worlds, neither wholly Catholic nor wholly Jewish.
- Copyright year: 2010
Living in Silverado
Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico
University of New Mexico Press
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.
- Copyright year: 2019
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