Pioneer Jewish Texans / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ornish, Natalie.

Contributor:

Alpern, Sara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Texas--Biography.

Texas--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st Texas A&M University Press ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents Ornish's meticulous research and her fascinating historical vignettes for a new generation of readers and historians. She chronicles Jewish buccaneers with Jean Lafitte at Galveston; she tells of Jewish patriots who fought at the Alamo and at virtually every major enga

Contents:

Introduction to a people

The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom

The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence

The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west

The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation

The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds

The financiers : new frontiers in banking

The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases

The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement

The great merchants : some called them princes

The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future

The educators : the Paul Reveres of education

The artists : vanguards in the arts

The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize

The lawyers : justice for all.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-05346-7

1-60344-433-5

OCLC:

759158575