Overall, this book provides a better understanding of the wider crypto-Jewish community in late sixteenth-century Mexico beyond the Carvajal narrative and beyond Mexico City. It also opens up the study of mining cities to which historians have not previously paid as much attention in the historiography.--Rafaela Acevedo-Field, H-LatAm

Drawing on a wide range of original sources, Gitlitz forces us to readdress our understanding of the dynamics of crypto-Jewish identity.--Seth D. Kunin, author of Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity among the Crypto-Jews

Drawing on a wide range of original sources, Gitlitz forces us to readdress our understanding of the dynamics of crypto-Jewish identity.--Seth D. Kunin, author of Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity among the Crypto-Jews