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- Pioneer Jewish Texans
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
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400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.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 engagement in the war for Texan independence; she traces the careers of immigrants with names like Marcus, Sanger, and Gordon, who arrived on the Texas frontier with little more than the packs on their backs and went on to build great mercantile empires. Cattle barons, wildcatters, diplomats, physicians, financiers, artists, and humanitarians are among the other notable Jewish pioneers and pathfinders described in this carefully researched and exhaustively documented book.
Filling a substantial void in Texana and Texas history, the Texas A&M University Press edition of Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans brings back into circulation this treasure trove of information on a rich and often overlooked vein of the multifaceted story of the Lone Star State.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction to a People
- pp. xi-xii
- 7. The Wildcatters: From Pipes to Oil Leases
- pp. 113-122
- 12. The Artists: Vanguards in the Arts
- pp. 227-239
- 14. The Lawyers: Justice for all
- pp. 259-268
- Acknowledgments
- p. 271
- Appendices
- pp. 273-290
- Bibliography
- pp. 319-332
Additional Information
ISBN
9781603444330
Related ISBN(s)
9781603444231
MARC Record
OCLC
759158575
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No