[PDF] Pioneer Jewish Texans eBook

Author : Natalie Ornish
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1603444335

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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400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.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; she tells of Jewish patriots who fought at the Alamo and at virtually every major engagement in the war for Texan independence; she traces the careers of immigrants with names like Marcus, Sanger, and Gordon, who arrived on the Texas frontier with little more than the packs on their backs and went on to build great mercantile empires. Cattle barons, wildcatters, diplomats, physicians, financiers, artists, and humanitarians are among the other notable Jewish pioneers and pathfinders described in this carefully researched and exhaustively documented book. Filling a substantial void in Texana and Texas history, the Texas A&M University Press edition of Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans brings back into circulation this treasure trove of information on a rich and often overlooked vein of the multifaceted story of the Lone Star State.

Author : Harriet Rochlin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780618001965

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Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.

Author : University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release :
Category : Jews, American
ISBN :

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A pamphlet series dealing with many kinds of people who have contributed to the history and heritage of Texas.

Author : University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Jews
ISBN :

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A history of Jewish settlement in Texas.

Author : I. Harold Sharfman
Publisher : Rachelle Simon
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :

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"Although most Jews settled in the heavily populated Eastern cities, in forgotten records the author has discovered a colorful, important gallery of frontiersmen, traders, explorers, and military leaders, whose lives encompass the significant events of our history, from the French and Indian Wars to the Alamo"--Book jacket.

Author : Hollace Ava Weiner
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1584656220

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An essay collection of lively written, lavishly illustrated, and well-documented narratives on the history and culture of Texas Jews.

Author : David S. Koffman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1978800886

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Winner of the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore​ Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize​ The Jews’ Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. These two groups’ exchanges were numerous and diverse, proving at times harmonious when Jews’ and Natives people’s economic and social interests aligned, but discordant and fraught at other times. American Jews could be as exploitative of Native cultural, social, and political issues as other American settlers, and historian David Koffman argues that these interactions both unsettle and historicize the often triumphant consensus history of American Jewish life. Focusing on the ways Jewish class mobility and civic belonging were wrapped up in the dynamics of power and myth making that so severely impacted Native Americans, this books is provocative and timely, the first history to critically analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews’ grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.

Author : Mark K. Bauman
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0817320180

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Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, “rewriting southern Jewish history” in ways that its earliest historians could not have envisioned or anticipated, and doing so by specifically targeting themes and trends that might not have been readily apparent to those scholars. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History: Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility features essays collected from over a thirty-year career, including a never-before-published article. The prevailing narrative in southern Jewish history tends to emphasize the role of immigrant Jews as merchants in small southern towns and their subsequent struggles and successes in making a place for themselves in the fabric of those communities. Bauman offers assessments that go far beyond these simplified frameworks and draws upon varieties of subject matter, time periods, locations, tools, and perspectives over three decades of writing and scholarship. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History contains Bauman’s studies of Jewish urbanization, acculturation and migration, intra- and inter-group relations, economics and business, government, civic affairs, transnational diplomacy, social services, and gender—all complicating traditional notions of southern Jewish identity. Drawing on role theory as informed by sociology, psychology, demographics, and the nature and dynamics of leadership, Bauman traverses a broad swath—often urban—of the southern landscape, from Savannah, Charleston, and Baltimore through Atlanta, New Orleans, Galveston, and beyond the country to Europe and Israel. Bauman’s retrospective volume gives readers the opportunity to review a lifetime of work in a single publication as well as peruse newly penned introductions to his essays. The book also features an “Additional Readings” section designed to update the historiography in the essays.