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Contents Prologue: Rope Walker, A True Story ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 one : Los Judíos en la Frontera 22 two: A “Wild Indian Region”: At Home on the Frontier 40 t h r e e : The Possum and the Zionist 69 f ou r : Texas News for Texas Jews 98 f ive : Texas Jews and the Ku Klux Klan 121 six : Traditional Judaism and the Beth Israel Revolt 147 seven : Texas Jews Respond to the World Crises of the 1940s 170 eigh t : “Are You Going to Serve Us?”: Texas Jews and the Black Civil Rights Movement 193 nine : Interior Frontiers 215 Conclusion 235 Notes 239 Bibliography 267 Index 279 Headstone in the Hebrew Cemetery in Corsicana, Texas. Photograph by Barbara G. Stone © 2008. ...