| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 390 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history |
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Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Preface; Introduction: Celebrating Tradition and Resisting Assimilation; 1 -- Peddlers and Merchants, 1850-1863; 2 -- From Territory to Statehood, 1861-1865; 3 -- Riveted Jeans, Shopkeepers, and Ranchers in Railroad Towns, 1868-1880; 4 -- A Gunfighter, a Physician, an Alleged Arsonist, and a Reform Congregation, 1865-1885; 5 -- Settling, Praying, Working, and Partying in the Halcyon Years, 1865-1880; 6 -- Women, Their Children, and Their Occupations, 1860-1900; 7 -- Coping with Depression, 1880-1910 |
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8 -- Dashed Hopes, New Discoveries, and the Goldfield Bubble, 1890-19209 -- Building a Tourist Economy and a Permanent Synagogue, 1897-1946; 10 -- The Early Years of Las Vegas, 1905-1955; 11 -- Building a Temple, Keeping a Rabbi, and Schisms North and South, 1950-1980; 12 -- Antisemitism in the Twentieth Century; 13 -- Civil Rights and Uncommon Causes; 14 -- The Varieties of Religious Observance, 1974-2005; 15 -- Yiddishkeit, or Ways of Being Jewish, 1931-2005; 16 -- Walking the Walk, 1970-2005; Conclusion: The Past Need not be Prologue; Notes; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-369) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Jews -- Nevada -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Jews
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Nevada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780874177480 |
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0874177480 |
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9780874177374 |
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0874177375 |
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