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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457852703321

Autore

Ornish Natalie

Titolo

Pioneer Jewish Texans [[electronic resource] /] / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-299-05346-7

1-60344-433-5

Edizione

[1st Texas A&M University Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AlpernSara

Disciplina

976.4/004924

Soggetti

Jews - Texas

Electronic books.

Texas Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents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