Crypto-Jews and the Mexican Holy Office in the Seventeenth Century

Although conversos secretly practicing Judaism began arriving at the very beginning of the conquest and colonization of what would soon be called New Spain, their presence—if not massive, at least established—was not registered until the 1580s. The union of the Castilian and Portuguese crowns betwee...

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Zusammenfassung:	Although conversos secretly practicing Judaism began arriving at the very beginning of the conquest and colonization of what would soon be called New Spain, their presence—if not massive, at least established—was not registered until the 1580s. The union of the Castilian and Portuguese crowns between 1580 and 1640 made the passage to America possible for families that, after the expulsion from Spain decreed by the Catholic monarchs in January 1492, had taken refuge in Portugal, a kingdom initially more tolerant toward Jews. From 1496 onward, however, a repression even more severe than that which had preceded and accompanied
DOI:	10.2307/j.ctt1x76f5z.14