Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jews have lived in Mexico since the times of the Inquisition. Today the community numbers over 50,000, concentrated primarily in Mexico City. Other communities are found in the state of Jalisco, mainly in Guadalajara and surrounding cities, and in Monterrey, Veracruz, Culiacán, and Tijuana. There have been Jews in Mexico since Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztecs, accompanied by several Conversos. Later, Jews arrived there to escape the Inquisition. Some of these Spanish Jews were forced to convert to Catholicism, but many maintained their Jewish religious practices in secret. This is often referred to as Anusim.