Research Catalog

Title

The forgotten Jews of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana / Carol Mills-Nichol.

Author

Mills-Nichol, Carol.

Publication

Santa Maria, California : Janaway Publishing, 2012.

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Details

Description

xx, 590 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

"This is the first ever book written about the Jewish men and women who came to central Louisiana to settle as early as the 1830s in Avoyelles Parish. Far more than a genealogy, the author takes the reader on a journey through time from the parishes [sic] earliest beginnings, through the Civil War, and two World Wars, finally, to the last man standing who practices Judaism today in this mostly agrarian section of the state"--Back cover.

Subject

• Siess, David > Family
• Siess family
• Rich family
• Jews > Louisiana > Avoyelles Parish > History
• Jews > Louisiana > Avoyelles Parish > Biography
• Jews > Louisiana > Avoyelles Parish > Genealogy
• Avoyelles Parish (La.) > History
• Avoyelles Parish (La.) > Biography
• Avoyelles Parish (La.) > Genealogy
• Avoyelles Parish (La.) > Ethnic relations > History

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Genealogy
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-547) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

First arrivals at Hydropolis -- Abe Felsenthal--a Pointe Maigre merchant -- Sam & Alex Haas--Louisiana moguls -- Mansura bound -- Family feuds -- Simon Siess--world traveler -- Saw mills, gushers and broken bones -- Words and music--the descendants of David Siess -- The Goudchaux network -- The curious case of Moses Wolf -- Moise Levy--Evergreen merchant -- Simon Karpe--a refugee in Louisiana -- The Rich family--Bunkie pioneers -- The Avoyelles outrage -- The last wave of Jewish immigrants.

ISBN

• 9781596412828
• 1596412828
• 1596412852
• 9781596412859

LCCN

^^2012945057

OCLC

• 814304410
• SCSB-11892315

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library