03013nam 2200577 a 450 991082771180332120230725051422.01-299-05346-71-60344-433-5(CKB)2550000000050858(EBL)1100944(OCoLC)759158575(SSID)ssj0000540078(PQKBManifestationID)11369857(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540078(PQKBWorkID)10581352(PQKB)10552330(MiAaPQ)EBC1100944(MdBmJHUP)muse14817(Au-PeEL)EBL1100944(CaPaEBR)ebr10492846(CaONFJC)MIL436596(EXLCZ)99255000000005085820101217d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPioneer Jewish Texans /Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern1st Texas A&M University Press ed.College Station Texas A&M University Press20111 online resource (377 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60344-423-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents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 engaJewsTexasBiographyTexasBiographyJews976.4/004924Ornish Natalie1681845Alpern Sara1681846MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827711803321Pioneer Jewish Texans4051541UNINA