| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| 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 |
| 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400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jews -- Texas -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Jews
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- Biography
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| Subject |
Texas
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Electronic resource.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alpern, Sara, 1942-
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| LC no. |
2010053385 |
| ISBN |
1603444335 |
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9781603444330 |
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