{"product_id":"pioneer-jewish-texans-9781603444231","title":"Pioneer Jewish Texans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's \u003ci\u003ePioneer Jewish Texans\u003c\/i\u003e quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.\u003cbr\u003e This new Texas A\u0026amp;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.\u003cbr\u003e Filling a substantial void in Texana and Texas history, the Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press edition of Natalie Ornish's \u003ci\u003ePioneer Jewish Texans\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas A \u0026 M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863501996375,"sku":"9781603444231","price":23.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781603444231.jpg?v=1759920753","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pioneer-jewish-texans-9781603444231","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}