[PDF] Pioneer Jews eBook

Author : Harriet Rochlin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 30,41 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 : Natalie Ornish
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1603444238

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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400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.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 : I. Harold Sharfman
Publisher : Rachelle Simon
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 33,31 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 : Nancy Oswald
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780805074659

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In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved.

Author : Kenneth Libo
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's/Marek
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780312858667

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We lived There Too is a vivid portrayal of the Jewish immigrants who went west to forge new and vibrant communities in every corner of the American Wilderness. Constructed out of a rich treasury of many hitherto unpublished dairies, memories and letters, together with contemporary newspaper articles, photographs and drawings, this real life saga is filled with dramatic reminiscences that display the humor and humanity of the Jewish tradition. We Lived There Too offers an extraordinary view of men and women in action and constitutes a new chapter in the story of the American frontier.

Author : David S. Koffman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 197880086X

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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. This book is the first history to analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews' grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.