Pioneer Jewish Texans

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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400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.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; s…

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Full title :Pioneer Jewish Texans / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern.

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Publication Date:2011.
Edition:1st Texas A & M University Press ed

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Publisher(s):Texas A & M University Press
Place of Publication:College Station
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource

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oclc:ocn840848172
LC Classification:F395.J5
Dewey Decimal:976.4/004924

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.

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