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Lone stars of David : the Jews of Texas
- Title
- Lone stars of David : the Jews of Texas / compiled and edited by Hollace Ava Weiner and Kenneth D. Roseman.
- Publication
- Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : In association with the Texas Jewish Historical Society published by University Press of New England, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xvii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 29 cm.
- Series Statement
- Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
- Uniform Title
- Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. The formative years : forging a dual identity -- 1. Introduction : "I caught the contagion of bragging ... " / Hollace Ava Weiner -- 2. On the frontier : Jews without Judaism / Bryan Edward Stone -- 3. Confederate stories : the Sanger Brothers of Weatherford, Dallas, and Waco / Gary P. Whitfield -- 4. Home on the range : Mayer Halff's cattle empire / Patrick Dearen -- 5. "These one-sex organizations" : clubwomen create communal institutions / Hollace Ava Weiner -- 6. "The man who stayed in Texas" : Galveston's Rabbi Henry Cohen, a memoir / Henry Cohen II -- 7. Deep in the heart of Palestine : Zionism in early Texas / Stuart Rockoff -- Pt. II. The entrepreneurial era : leaving their mark -- 8. West Texas Wildcatters : from immigrant to Patron Saint Rita / Barry Shlachter -- 9. East Texas oil boom : from New Jersey farm boy to scrap metal king / Jan Statman -- 10. On the border : a deck of cards led to Del Rio / Doug Braudaway -- 11. The Zale story : diamonds for the rough / Lauraine Miller -- 12. Neiman-Marcus : Al Neiman, a princely pauper / Hollace Ava Weiner -- 13. West of Neiman's : best little department store in Sweetwater / Jane Bock Guzman -- Pt. III. Current events : changing the Texas landscape -- 14. Little synagogues across Texas : Baytown, Breckenridge, Brenham, Bryan, Brownsville, Corsicana, Jefferson, Odessa, San Angelo, Schulenburg, Victoria, Wharton / Hollace Ava Weiner and Lauraine Miller -- 15. Six-tenths of a percent of / Texas and Kenneth D. Roseman -- 16. Most politics is local / Steve Gutow and Laurie Barker James -- 17. Minority report : Dr. Ray K. Daily battles the Houston School Board / Lynwood Abram -- 18. Opening legal doors for women : Hermine Tobolowsky / Gladys R. Leff -- 19. El Paso : The Wild West welcomes holocaust survivors / Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Sylvia Deener Cohen -- 20. Forty acres and a Shul : "its easy as Dell" / Cathy Schechter -- 21. Comfort and discomfort : being Jewish in Fort Worth / Ralph D. Mecklenburger.
- ISBN
- 1584656220 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781584656227 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006024834
- 9781584656227
- OCLC
- OCM70839726
- 70839726
- SCSB-5314950
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries