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400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents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