Title: Pioneer Jewish Texans : their impact on Texas and American history for four hundred years, 1590-1990 /
Authors: Ornish, Natalie.
Publisher: Texas Heritage Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Jews Texas Biography.; Texas Biography
Contents: 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.