Pioneer Jewish Texans
By: Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern
Edition: 1st Texas A&M University Press ed.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781603444231; 9781603444330
Subjects: Jews; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. [319]-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to a people; title: The adventurers: conquistadors and the search for freedom; title: The soldiers: Jews in the battles for Texas independence; title: The colonizers: opening Texas's lands west; title: The statesmen: constructing a republic and a nation; title: The ranchers: giants of Texas's great cattle herds; title: The financiers: new frontiers in banking; title: The wildcatters: from pipes to oil leases; title: The humanitarian: Galveston and the gateway immigration movement; title: The great merchants: some called them princes; title: The significant merchants: laying the economic foundation for Texas's future; title: The educators: the Paul Reveres of education; title: The artists: vanguards in the arts; title: The doctors and other healers: from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize; title: The lawyers: justice for all.