By Henry J. Tobias
During this first heritage of the Jews in New Mexico--from the colonial interval to the current day--the writer constantly ties the Jewish adventure to the evolution of the societies during which they lived and labored. The publication starts with one of many least identified yet such a lot attention-grabbing features of recent Mexico Jewry--the crypto-Jews who got here north to flee the Mexican Inquisition. within the 19th and 20th centuries, the tale is extra typical: German retailers settling in Las Vegas and Santa Fe after which coming to Albuquerque after the railroad arrived. to those debts the writer provides massive nuance and aspect, really at the position of Jews in smaller groups reminiscent of Roswell and Las Cruces in addition to their social lifestyles and spiritual perform in a frontier quarter. The dialogue of the 20 th century concentration relatively at the dynamics of Jewish improvement, and the ways that that approach differed in New Mexico.
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But without the attempt to describe the broad processes at work, one is left only with fragments. My purpose is to integrate facts and events to provide a broad picture. The very attempt to define and explain the historical terrain provides a social cartography by laying out the local and national conditions that have affected the Jews in New Mexico and their adaptation to these conditions from the time of settlement to the near present. The problems encountered in writing such a general history, covering nearly a century and a half, are many.
11 They suffered for a time from mutinies, battle casualties, and desertion. By 1680 there may have been as many as 2,900. It appears likely that much of this growth stemmed from natural increase rather than immigration. 12 In 1680 the northern Indian pueblos revolted and drove the settlers southward, killing missionaries and colonists and taking women and children captive. As a result, when Don Diego de Vargas launched his campaign of reconquest in 1692, his mission became one of recolonization.
34 Whether the trail of Germans in Missouri or the Santa Fe Trail itself beckoned to him is unknown. It is not even clear that "the land of enchantment" was Spiegelberg's intended final destination. He may simply have responded to the call westward and the opportunity provided by the Santa Fe Trail. <><><><><><><><><><><><> For many of those who followed the first modern Jewish settlers into New Mexico the question of why they came may be answered specifically. A relative in America and an assured opportunity to work provided a place to go and a clear motive for going.
