| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4 | The History Cooperative

*To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico.* By Stanley M. Hordes. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxi + 348 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95, 22.50.)
Piecing together fragmentary and often circumstantial evidence, Stanley Hordes recounts his remarkable hunt for crypto-Jews in New Mexico. If his quarries existed, however, they covered their tracks exceedingly well.	1
Hordes begins his story in Spain with the forced conversion or expulsion of Jews, and in New Spain where a group of Jewish converts to Christianity, or conversos, flourished in the 1500s. Some of those conversos or their descendents became sincere Christians; others were crytpo-Jews, nominal Christians who secretly maintained Jewish practices. In Spain and its colonies, however, all conversos bore the taint of their Jewish origins. Thus, when the Inquisition launched a campaign against conversos in New Spain, some fled to remote areas of the colony like New Mexico, the "end of the earth."	. . .

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