Pioneer Jewish Texans [electronic resource] / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern.
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- 9781603444330
- 1603444335
- 976.4/004924 22
- F395.J5 O76 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-332) 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.
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