Pioneer Jewish Texans

by Alpern, Sara Ornish, Natalie

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Title Statements

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

Edition Statements

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

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 362 p.) : illustrations, portraits

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1603444238, 1603444335, 9781603444231, 9781603444330
oclc:ocn897050290
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