New Mexico Volume 19, No. 2 Jewish Historical Society June 2005 Annual Membership Meeting To Feature Film, Speaker, On European Jewish Athletes by Julie Gordon or its 2005 Annual Mem- and it grew to be one of Europe’s largest sports a tone of wonderment, Watermarks becomes more bership Meeting, the clubs while also achieving tremendous triumphs than a pointed footnote to . It New Mexico Jewish His- in its many diverse sports. In the 1930s, one of emerges as a surprisingly encouraging reflection F torical Society will once the club’s best-known achievements came from on the distance between youth and advanced age. again de- Despite their physical frailty, the spirit of these part from women, many of them honored professionals in its usual lecture-and-dinner a variety of fields, remains intact, and their joy at format for the second year in reconnecting outweighs their uneasiness at re- a row and will present a fasci- turning to the homeland that rejected them. nating film event examining During the course of her discussion, Dr. Lampl the legendary sports club will explain the context, process and motivation Hakoah (“The Strength” in for the production of Watermarks. Hebrew) . The program will run from 3:00pm to 5:30pm, The program will be held at Annie Wagner Lampl swims during beginning with the announcement of the Society’s the Screen Theater on the cam- a 2004 reunion with her teammates new officers and board members and the presen- from the Hakoah sports club, which pus of the College of Santa was shut down by the Nazis in 1938. tation of the Dr. Allan Hurst Award. Following Fe,1600 St. Michaels Dr., on Annie Wagner marries her this brief segment, Dr. Lampl will introduce and Sunday afternoon, June 26, ~Photos taken by Chris Van Houts show the film. After the screening, Dr. Lampl childhood sweetheart, & provided by Yaron Zilberman. and will feature the screening Hakoah fencer, Sepp Lampl. will offer comments and answer questions. of the documentary Watermarks directed by the women swimmers, who were leaders in na- Yaron Zilberman. One of the swimmers, tional championships in . As seating is limited, it is advised that attendees Dr. Annie Lampl, will offer remarks before purchase tickets in advance to guarantee a seat. the screening and a question-and-answer ses- In 1938, after the political unification of Nazi Tickets for the program are $10.00 in advance sion after the film. Germany and Austria, the Nazis shut down and can be reserved by contacting Bobbi Jack- Hakoah Vienna, but the swimmers managed to son, the Society’s administrator, in Albuquerque The Hakoah Vienna sports club opened in escape the country as a result of a rescue opera- at 505-348-4471, or via email at 1909 as a response to the prohibition on Aus- tion organized by the club’s functionaries. Sixty- [email protected]. Please confirm trian sports clubs to accept Jewish athletes, five years later, in 2004, director Yaron Zilberman your reservations with payment by June 20. Address: New Mexico Jewish met the women’s swim team members – now in their eighties – in their homes around the world A short portion of this article was taken from the NY Historical Society Times review "Swimmers Who Fled Nazi Vienna Look 5520 Wyoming Blvd. NE and arranged for them to have a reunion at their Back" of January 21, 2005. Copyright © 2005 by The Albuquerque, NM 87109 old swimming pool in Vienna. New York Times Co. Reprinted with permission."

Telephone: (505) 348-4471 This journey, captured in the documentary INSIDE THIS ISSUE Fax: (505) 821-3351 Watermarks, evoked nostalgic memories of Annual Membership Meeting...... 1 website: www.nmjewishhistory.org youth and femininity and served to reinforce The Converso Legacy – A Novel...... 2 email: [email protected] lifelong bonds. Message From the President...... 2 Administrator: Bobbi Jackson The documentary is the story and saga of seven Office Hours: Monday and Thursday incredible athletes who faced adversity and still Catching the Genealogy Bug...... 3&4 1:00-4:00 pm swim daily with grace, and it is told by the swim- Upcoming Book Sale...... 5 Managing Editor Julie Gordon mers themselves. Abuelita’s Secret Matzahs...... 6 If you have any news or announcements Dr. Lampl will discuss the making of the film Stan Hordes’ New Book...... 7 of interest to our membership, please and her interaction with the other six remark- send it to the above address. Thank you. able women. As these women tell their stories in Calendar of Upcoming Events...... 8 New Mexico Jewish Historical Society The Converso Legacy – A Novel Reviewed by Abraham S. Chanin his is the epic adventure He is taken in by them and soon finds fled the Inquisition in Spain and came to of Shlomo Rabinowitz, himself in a warm situation. He becomes Mexico and then the Territory of New a young man who is try- enamored with their daughter, Esther, but Mexico. Now that Esther is really Jew- T ing to escape impres- the romance goes no further because she ish, the romance is in full bloom and the sion in the Russian is a Christian and he is a Jew. Samuel’s great story of Samuel Rabinowitz comes army. He gathers up a troubles mount as he is crossed by a to a dramatic close. small amount of money for passage to wealthy Mexican who is also a Jew hater. America. Now begin his great travels. The man decides to destroy Samuel, who This is a wonderful story of a typical me- gains the aid of a local priest. The busi- andering peddler – an epic of a tale, well- He lands in New York and is befriended ness involvement is over the sale of corn to told by the author, Sheldon Gardner, a by cousins who help him get started as a a military fort. With the help of an judge who attended meetings of the New peddler. Shlomo peddles his way across aroused citizenry, angered over the Mexico Jewish Historical Society and America, having great troubles and great wealthy Mexican’s mistreatment of them, learned of the great Converso story. adventures. Eventually he comes to the they rise up and the tide is turned. Territory of New Mexico. The setting is THE CONVERSO LEGACY, $18.95, in the early 1880s. Shlomo, now Eventually, Samuel is the winner and now Pitsopany Press, 101 Monterey Avenue, Samuel, becomes intimate with a Mexi- comes the revelation that the Carvellos are Pelham, NY 10803. can family, the Carvellos. really descendants of Spanish who

Message From The President by Lance Bell s we move into summer, volunteers and project committee have done members. Your membership dues are the I am excited about the an excellent job in preparing 13 beautiful primary funding resource we have to sur- upcoming year at the individual pioneer family booklets. vive. Please make sure that your 2005 mem- A New Mexico Jewish His- bership is up to date. If possible, help us torical Society. I also Our newest board member and genealogy recruit new members. We would also like would like to let everyone chair, Dorothy Corner Amsden, from Los to reach out to our members and ask you to know about my personal experience at the Alamos , has many great ideas about an im- get involved with the society or to support annual Congregation Montefiore Cem- portant subject to many of us : genealogy. our programs with a small donation. etery clean up in Las Vegas in early April. I hope you enjoy her article in this issue as I have always wanted to attend this event much as I did. With that said, I am very I look forward to personally seeing you at but never seemed to find the time. N ow fortunate to work with a dedicated Board of our upcoming Membership meeting in that I know how special this project is, I hard working individuals at the New Mexico Santa Fe on June 26th , when we will view look forward to returning next year with Jewish Historical Society. Thank you Board the film, Watermarks, the story of the cham- my family. After the volunteers and soci- for all of your hard work and for sharing pion women swimmers of the legendary ety members left the cemetery, it was in your very important TIME! On another Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna (“The much better condition for all those who are positive note, I would like to welcome Clara Strength" in Hebrew) and have a discus- resting there and for all of the visitors who “Bobbi” Jackson, our new administrator. I sion with Annie Lampl, one of the seven made it to this historical and spiritual place. am sure you will all enjoy getting to know remarkable swimmers. her as much as we have. Our board and its committees have been I would also like to say a busy preparing for the next annual Mem- final good-bye to Julie bership Meeting, Book Sale and annual Fall Gordon. Julie, you really Conference. I am confident that you will made your mark on our find the topics and programs of interest. society. Thank you, we Look inside this issue to learn more about will all miss you. each of these events and please make sure you mark your calendar and save the dates. In the coming year, we The video history project is ready to com- are rededicating ourselves plete the booklet phase of the project. The to our mission and to our Page 2 New Mexico Jewish Historical Society Catching the Genealogy Bug by Dorothy Corner Amsden Note from NMJHS editor: The NMJHS board has decided to add a genealogy component to the Society and asked Dorothy Amsden to join the board in this regard. Dorothy will contribute an article on genealogy to the newsletter each quarter. In her first article for the NMJHS, she gives highlights of researching her own family history to illustrate the process. Subsequent articles will look at various aspects of genealogical resources and methodology and try to address the interests of NMJHS members who wish to research family roots in New Mexico and elsewhere.

f you have been thinking of the year they were born. With those three time to marry and have three children. He about researching your pieces of information, you can unlock a lot went back to England, lost his first wife, re- family tree, don’t wait of doors. married, and some years later my father was until it’s too born. When Dad came to I late. Start today. the U.S. in 1930, he Better yet, start changed his name from yesterday! Talk with your older Cecil Korn to Cecil Corner relatives. They may not be around so he could get a job in the tomorrow. Their memories may depths of the Depression. hold the key to unlocking your family history. Little by little the pieces came together. A researcher When I was growing up in I paid in England found Albuquerque, my parents told me birth, death, and marriage what little they knew about their certificates for me that an- parents. I wasn’t especially in- chored the emerging story. quisitive. It was enough to know Cousin Vic in New York that my father came from Eng- took out a paid subscrip- land and that my mother’s par- tion to Ancestry.com on ents came from . In the the Internet where he old days parents didn’t discuss found indexes to vital their past with their children. The author’s grandfather Isadore Korn, his wife and their young family had records, but not the records their portrait taken at a studio in Manchester, England, circa 1903, extrapo- themselves. We then had to lating from the baby’s apparent age and known date of birth. Dorothy had As my parents grew older, I be- never met or even seen a picture of her grandfather until a distant relative contact the appropriate of- gan to press them for more infor- attending a family reunion in 2000 produced this treasure, which shows the ficial records office to re- mation, which I wrote down. It relative ages of the children from their parents’ first marriages, in which each quest and pay for a copy of didn’t amount to much. My fa- had lost a spouse and the first of six children that they would have together. the actual certificate. That ther named the 10 children in his was the real payoff, giving family in birth order and told me that his I still don’t know the ancestral town the us new information and new leads. Yet, on father, Isadore Korn, came from Austria Korn family came from, but I have learned occasion, we receive a certificate for a per- and settled in England. Where in Austria? a lot along the way. Isadore was an itinerant son who looked like a strong possibility on He didn’t know. peddler who made and sold confections at the index, but who turns out not to be our fairs and at the seaside. He played the horses relative. Oh well, that’s part of the search My English cousins didn’t know where instead of sending his earnings home. He process, chasing false leads. Grandfather came from either. But their was extremely strong and good looking, ac- father, my uncle Abe, did. Unfortunately cording to a photo and stories that relatives From what I have been reading recently in he had passed away before I got the gene- brought to a family reunion. Avotaynu, The International Review of Ge- alogy bug. I had visited Uncle Abe several nealogy, published quarterly, the family times in England when I was younger, but That family reunion in 2000 brought rela- name Korn or Corn was probably a longer it never occurred to me to ask him about tives to Hawaii from all over the world, lit- version in Austria. In 1787, the Austrian the family. I even turned down the offer erally. I met cousins I hadn’t even heard of. Empire required all Jews to adopt fixed, he- to meet his older sister. Silly me. Some of us started working together to piece reditary family names. Jewish families could together our family history. Little by little, choose their own names, but not common I am paying for that complacency now. You we discovered that Grandfather also went German names, or have one assigned to can’t do genealogical research without by Isidor Corn. There he was under that them. Name lists that the authorities pre- knowing the name of the ancestor you are spelling on the Ellis Island database. Ah ha! pared were designed to create a wide diver- looking for, the name of the town he or Finally I had a year for his footfall in the sity of surnames. The lists had two columns she came from and an approximate idea United States. He only stayed a few years – Continued on p. 4 Page 3 New Mexico Jewish Historical Society Geneology Bug continued from p. 3 of words that could be combined into a buff, you will probably want to search the beginners, all of which are good. My favorite surname. Bern, Korn, Gold, Hirsch, Rosen genealogical resources on the Internet and is Arthur Kurzweil’s From Generation to Gen- in the first column, for example, could be there are plenty of them, many of them free, eration, which appeared in a new edition re- combined with baum, berg, feld, garten, but others that charge for their services. You cently. JewishGen also recommends sub- heim, stein, thal in the second. Thus, one may have some beginner’s luck and find scribing to Avotaynu, which I heartily en- can derive Baumberg, Kornfeld, something exciting, such as locating an an- dorse. Goldstein, Rosenthal and many other cestral town and making new family con- combinations. Was Kornfeld our family tacts that Lance Bell wrote about in the pre- Let me suggest a few websites to explore that name? There is a slight possibility, a vague vious issue of the NMJHS newsletter. You will get you started. These links are provided memory that an older distant cousin re- may come away disappointed, as I did when on the new NMJHS genealogy web page: cently recalled. This bears investigation. I first started looking for my ancestors. That’s because I wasn’t spelling their names http://www.jewishgen.org As for the ancestral town in Austria where the way they appear on the registers. I had http://www.avotaynu.com my grandfather came from, I don’t know to learn about methods for getting around http://www.ellisisland.org because I didn’t think to ask Uncle Abe. odd spellings, such as the Soundex system, http://www.cyndislist.com However, Gary Mokotoff, publisher of which boils names down to a formula that Avotaynu, told me in a telephone conver- identifies them by sound rather than a set In subsequent articles for the NMJHS news- sation a few years ago that most Jews who sequence of letters. letter, I plan to explore various aspects of said they came from Austria were from genealogy. Mind you, I do not consider Galicia, a part of the Austrian Empire that After indulging yourself on Internet myself a seasoned genealogist by any stretch today is in southeastern Poland and south- searches, you will want to take a step back of the imagination. I’m in that intermediate western Ukraine. So my working hypoth- and start to learn the ropes. Local geneal- category, still learning the ropes, still scratch- esis is that Grandfather Isadore came from ogy societies offer classes to help beginners ing my head, still wondering what other re- somewhere in Galicia. On the JewishGen get started. You can also go to the JewishGen sources exist to help me find the unfindable. website, there is even a Special Interest website and, under the category “Learn”, I’m beginning to understand that the search Group that concentrates on research, click on “JewishGen FAQ”. That will lead and the way you frame your questions are records and history in Galicia. It is really you through the process for getting started. actually more exciting than being able to put quite informative. On the JewishGen JewishGen recommends several books for a name or date on the family tree. website you will find a complete list of SIGs that cover many specific areas of in- terest: Austria-Czech, Belarus, Courland, Early American, French, Galicia, German, Special thanks to our 2005 Donors: Hungary, Latvia, Litvak, Romania, Scan- Marta S. Ballen, Yetta Bidegain, Fay F. Blake, Linda & Sandy Gallanter, dinavia, Sefard, Southern Africa, Ukraine, Myra Gasser & Marilyn Reinman, Betsy Krieger & David Kandel, United Kingdom, Rabbinic. Dana Terr Konno, Marshall & Janice Moranz, Laura Murra, Jennie Negin & Harold Folley, Amy Saldinger, Carl Saldinger, Joel & Sylvia Saldinger, Experienced genealogists already know Martha Saldinger, Ruth Saldinger, David & Holly Scholder, about the resources available for research- Abe & Marian Silver, Louise Taichert, Marjorie Weinberg-Berman & ing their families and the methodology to Paul Berman, Judy Basen Weinreb & Peter Weinreb, follow. If you are thinking about getting started, there is plenty of help for begin- Victor & Barbara Weisskopf, Admiral Robert H. Wertheim ners. First of all, if you are a computer

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Page 4 New Mexico Jewish Historical Society Mark Your Calendar For The Next Book Sale by Sheila Gershen abor Day may seem a from around the world and all sorts of at 505-670-8315. We even have pickup long way off and we’re unique uncategorical items. It’s a bar- service. all looking forward to gain-hunter’s paradise. L a wonderful summer. We’re also looking for volunteers to help When that weekend ar- The sale will be held once again at the with transporting the books, setting up, rives, be sure to leave Wild Oats Community Room in Santa or working the sale. Call the Santa Fe lots of time to browse our fabulous Fe, which is actually the building on number to get involved. Fourth Annual Book & Etc. Sale. Cordova Road just west of St. Francis Drive and the Wild Oats Market. It’s a The sale this year is on Saturday, Septem- Thanks to the expertise and hard work large, airy room with lots of parking right ber 3 and Sunday, September 4 from of local bookseller and NMJHS mem- out front. Wild Oats has hosted this 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. It’s free and eve- ber, Shirley Jacobson, this is one of our event since its inception and we greatly ryone is welcome. Have a wonderful sum- most anticipated and successful fund appreciate their continued support. mer and we’ll see you there. raising events. We always have room for more books and SAVE THE DATE! As in past years, we’re gathering a re- other items, so if you or your friends have markable array of new and used books anything to donate, it will be greatly ap- November 11 - 13, 2005 on every imaginable subject with irre- preciated. It’s a good opportunity to clear NMJHS 18th Annual Conference: sistibly low prices. For the collector, those cluttered shelves and it all goes to "New Mexico Jews in there will be a select number of auto- an excellent cause. You can make ar- War and Peace" graphed first editions, rare books and rangements to drop them off in La Posada Hotel, Albuquerque Judaica. We’ll again have a fine group Albuquerque by calling Paul Hordes (af- of art books. ter 10:30 a.m.) at 505-699-4594. In The Conference Brochure Santa Fe, call Shirley Jacobson (Thursday, will be mailed to NMJHS We’ll also have original costume jewelry Friday or Saturday, 11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.) members in September. The NMJHS Wishes to Extend an Extra-Special Thank-You to the Volunteers and Please mark your calendars now Committee Members who have Dedicated their Time and Energy to Recording and for this intriguing Conference. Preserving the Family Histories of 13 New Mexico Pioneer Jewish Families: VOLUNTEERS • Richard Deutsch • Naomi Sandweiss • Paula Steinberg • Gail Jamin • Paula Schwartz • Peter Tannen On page 3 of the December 2004 • Steven Kesselman • Vivian Skadron • Barbara Weinbaum NMJHS newsletter, we wish to add • Anita Miller • Judith Solo • Robert Bello, Graduate Assistant that Sarah Godner, the "Marvin COMMITTEE MEMBERS Taichert Scholar to the NMJHS • Durwood Ball • Noel Pugach • Judy Basen Weinreb Board", is an active member of • Sarah R. Payne, Grad Student • Henry Tobias • Lisa Witt UNM's Hillel, the center for Jewish BOOKLET LAYOUT/FORMATING life on campus. To find out more • Julie Gordon about UNM's Hillel, please visit its As an expression of gratitude for the wonderful work the volunteers and committee mem- website: http://hillel.unm.edu/ bers have performed, the NMJHS is extending a 2005/2006 membership to each person.

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Page 5 New Mexico Jewish Historical Society Abuelita’s Secret Matzahs NMJHS Board of Directors Book written by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and illustrations by Diana Bryer and Officers Article Reprinted with Permission from Diana Bryer and the Chimayo Trading Del Norte Gallery Officers Lance Bell, President - Santa Fe Nancy Terr, Vice President- Albuquerque acobo loves to visit his about his own place in the chain of the gen- Harold Melnick, Treasurer - Santa Fe grandmother (“abuelita”) erations. After reading the story, parents and Gerald González, Recording Secretary - Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New children will be able to discuss their own Melanie LaBorwit, Corr. Secretary - Albuquerque J Mexico. While there, he family traditions and history. Directors befriends David, a Jew- Dorothy Corner Amsden, Los Alamos Norman Budow, Santa Fe ish child, and Jacobo no- Set in New Mexico, Abuelita’s Secret Matzahs Abe Chanin, Albuquerque tices that David’s family has many of the is a beautifully told tale by celebrated Rabbi John Feldman, Albuquerque same traditions as his abuelita: they don’t children’s author Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Rabbi Arthur Flicker, Albuquerque Werner Gellert, Albuquerque eat pork, they light two candles on Friday lushly illustrated by renowned Southwest- Sheila Gershen, Santa Fe nights and they eat unleavened bread dur- ern artist, Diana Bryer. Because Jacobo and Sarah Godner, Albuquerque Julie Gordon, Tucson, AZ ing Passover. Jacobo suspects that the tor- his family are of Spanish descent, the story Claire Grossman, Nashua, NH tillas his own grandmother serves during also teaches Spanish vocabulary and is per- Sharon Herzog, Santa Fe semana santa, Holy Week, are Easter fect for multicultural classrooms. The book Peter Hess, Santa Fe Phil Saltz, Santa Fe Matzahs! appears in a paperback Spanish translation Deborah Seligman, Albuquerque by Dennis C. Sasso, the husband of the Marjorie Weinberg-Berman, Kings Point, NY In engaging, accessible language, Abuelita’s author. John Wertheim, Albuquerque Secret Matzahs ($17.99, hc, Emmis Books, Immediate Past President January 2005) tells children the fascinat- Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, award-winning Stanley Hordes, Ph.D., Santa Fe ing but little-known story of Crypto Jews; children’s author of inspiring books for chil- Administrator Jews forced to convert to Christianity dur- dren of all faiths and backgrounds, was the Bobbi Jackson, Albuquerque ing the Spanish Inquisition, who secretly second woman in the United States to be maintained their Jewish identity and cus- ordained as a rabbi and the first rabbi to The NMJHS’ Board’s toms throughout the ages—often unaware become a mother. She is the author of many of the reasons for some of these customs. wonderful books, including God’s Paint- Appeal to Its Members brush, In God’s Name, Adam and Eve’s First Our continued existence depends on When Jacobo persists in asking his grand- Sunset and Noah’s Wife. She and her hus- the interest and support of our mother about these practices, she tells him members. We need your cooperation band, Dennis, have two children and live to interest others to join our Society; the secret of their past and offers him the in Indianapolis, Indiana. we need your help to obtain archive chance to be the keeper of traditions for material and your ideas. We urge you his generation. As Jacobo learns about the Diana Bryer paints the people and rich to please renew your membership origins of his family, he begins to think history of northern New Mexico from her when due. If you are already a 2005 member, please encourage your friends studio in Espanola Valley. She has and family to join! been creating her unique style of American folk art for forty-five We are proud of our accomplishments, years. Her paintings are found in but we cannot rest on our laurels. It is your Society – we appreciate your numerous public and private col- continued interest and support. lections. She has illustrated several children’s books, including Cleo Thank you. and the Coyote. Know someone who ABUELITA’S SECRET MATZAHS is not a member? By Sandy Eisenberg Sasso Illustrations by Diana Bryer A friend or relative? Ask that friend Emmis Books .. January 2005 .. 32 pages or relative to join the NMJHS! Paperback .. ISBN 1-57860-177-0 .. $9.99 Every “old” member please get busy Hardcover .. ISBN 1-57860-157-6 .. $ and sign up a “new” member. A membership to the NMJHS makes a 17.99 great and unexpected GIFT! Spanish paperback (Las Matzas Secretas de Abuelita) .. ISBN 1-57860-212-2 .. $9.99 Help us grow!

Page 6 New Mexico Jewish Historical Society NMJHS Past-President and Historian Takes Readers "To the End of the Earth" Reprinted with permission from Dr. Stanley Hordes, and Philip Leventhal and Melissa Renee from Columbia University Press. n 1981, while working as reconstruct the history of a people who New Mexico State His- tried to leave no documentary record. Join us for a Talk and Book Signing torian, Stanley M. of Hordes began to hear “Like a skilled tracker, Hordes pursues a To The End of the Earth: A History of I the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico stories of Hispanos who prey at pains to cover its tracks, linking the lit candles on Friday bold 15th- and 16th-century persecution by Dr. Stanley Hordes night and abstained from eating pork. Puz- of Iberian Jews to a faint crypto-Jewish per- Sunday, August 14, 2005, 2pm zling over the matter, Hordes realized that sistence in 21st-century New Mexico. Jewish Community Center, Albuquerque these practices might very well have been Original, persuasive, humane.” ADMISSION IS FREE passed down through the centuries from —John Kessell, University of New Mexico, au- early crypto-Jewish settlers in New Spain. thor of Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative His- After extensive research and hundreds of tory of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and WANTED interviews, Hordes concluded that there California. Your books and other saleable was, in New Mexico and the Southwest, a items to donate... Sephardic legacy derived from the converso “A pathfinding work of collective biogra- Your time and talent to volunteer... community of Spanish Jews. phy and ethnohistory. Hordes makes a fun- for the damental contribution to emerging social In To the End of the Earth, Hordes explores structure in New Mexico and the South- 4th Annual Book the remarkable story of crypto-Jews and west, authoritatively researched in Iberian the tenuous preservation of Jewish rituals and Mexican archives. This book breaks & Etc. Sale new ground in Diaspora studies. It illumi- and traditions in Mexico and New Mexico Your presence is requested over the past five hundred years. He fol- nates the rewarding possibility of research at the sale: lows the crypto-Jews from their Jewish in Inquisition trials and the valuable data origins in medieval Spain and Portugal, to in Inquisition records outside of the trials Saturday and Sunday, their efforts to escape persecution by mi- per se. It documents the often-held view Sept. 3 & 4, 10am - 4pm grating to the New World and settling in that there is other gold in the Indies.” Free -- Everyone is welcome. the far reaches of the northern Mexican —Richard Greenleaf, professor emeritus of frontier. Drawing on individual biogra- colonial Latin American history, Tulane Uni- versity, author of The Mexican Inquisition of the Wild Oats Community Room phies (including those of colonial officials Sixteenth Century. Santa Fe accused of secretly practicing Judaism), (Cordova Road, just west of St. Francis Drive) family histories, Inquisition records, let- Stanley M. Hordes is the immediate past- ters and other primary sources, Hordes president of the NMJHS and is an adjunct To donate in Albuquerque, provides a richly detailed account of the research professor at the Latin American call Paul Hordes (after 10:30 a.m.): economic, social and religious lives of and Iberian Institute at the University of 505-699-4594 crypto-Jews during the colonial period and New Mexico. He earned his Ph.D. in Mexi- To donate or volunteer in Santa Fe, after the annexation of New Mexico by the can History at Tulane University, where he United States in 1846. While the Ameri- call Shirley Jacobson (Thurs. - Sat., received a Fulbright Dissertation Fellow- can government offered more religious 11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.): ship to perform research in Mexico and freedom than had the Spanish colonial 505-670-8315 Spain. He is the author of numerous ar- rulers, cultural assimilation into Anglo- ticles on the history of crypto-Judaism in See article on page 5. American society weakened many elements Mexico and the U.S. South- of the crypto-Jewish tradition. west. Hordes concludes with a discussion of the reemergence of crypto-Jewish culture and TO THE END OF THE the reclamation of Jewish ancestry within EARTH: A HISTORY OF THE the Hispano community in the late twen- CRYPTO-JEWS OF NEW tieth century. He examines the publicity MEXICO, $39.50, August, surrounding the rediscovery of the crypto- 2005, cloth, 352 pages, 12 maps, Jewish community and explores the chal- 16 photos, ISBN: 0-231-12936-X, lenges inherent in a study that attempts to Columbia University Press.

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The NMJHS WELCOMES its New 2005 Members: 2005 Membership Dues • Daniel Grossman • Bobbi Jackson • Carole Leipzig Membership fees are as follows: We apologize if there are any errors or omissions in this list. The NMJHS also wishes to thank ALL current Society members for their Renewal New continued support and generosity. You make a difference! Individual $35 Family $50 The NMJHS is soliciting historical papers and photographs for inclusion in its archival Senior (55+) $30 collection at the New Mexico Records Center and Archives. For more information contact Senior Couple $40 The NMJHS at (505) 348-4471 or [email protected]. Fulltime Student $20 Business $100 Calendar of Upcoming Events Friend $100 or more • June 26, Annual Membership Meeting, Santa Fe, The Screen at the College of Santa Fe. • August 14, Book Signing of Stan Hordes’ Book (see article on page 7), Albuquerque JCC, 2:00 p.m., Free. Name(s)______• Sept. 3 & 4, 4th Annual Book & Etc. Sale (See article on page 5), Santa Fe, Wild Oats Address______Community Room, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Free. City______State___Zip_____ • Nov. 11 – 13, Annual Conference, on “NM Jews in War and Peace”, La Posada Hotel, Albuquerque. Email address______Phone ______

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