LEADER 03040nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910781735703321 005 20230725051422.0 010 $a1-299-05346-7 010 $a1-60344-433-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050858 035 $a(EBL)1100944 035 $a(OCoLC)759158575 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000540078 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11369857 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540078 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581352 035 $a(PQKB)10552330 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1100944 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14817 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1100944 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492846 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436596 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050858 100 $a20101217d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPioneer Jewish Texans$b[electronic resource] /$fNatalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern 205 $a1st Texas A&M University Press ed. 210 $aCollege Station $cTexas A&M University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (377 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60344-423-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction 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. 330 $a 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400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents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 606 $aJews$zTexas$vBiography 607 $aTexas$vBiography 615 0$aJews 676 $a976.4/004924 700 $aOrnish$b Natalie$01521018 701 $aAlpern$b Sara$01521019 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781735703321 996 $aPioneer Jewish Texans$93759884 997 $aUNINA