Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas »

HOLLACE AVA WEINER, a journalist-turned-historian, is the author of Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work (1999). She is a past-president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society and has written about Texas Jewry for journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, and anthologies.

KENNETH D. ROSEMAN, rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Corpus Christi, has a Ph.D. in history and has written a prize-winning series of nonfiction books for juvenile readers.

ROBERT S. STRAUSS, a fourth-generation Texan, was chairman of the Democratic National Party during Jimmy Carter's campaign and served as ambassador to Russia under George H.W. Bush.

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

Foreword - Robert S. Strauss Acknowledgments the formative years: forging a dual identity
"I Caught the Contagion of Bragging . . ." - Hollace Ava Weiner On the Frontier: Jews without Judaism - Bryan Edward Stone Confederate Stories: The Sanger Brothers of Weatherford, Dallas, and Waco - Gary P. Whitfield Home on the Range: Mayer Halff's Cattle Empire - Patrick Dearen
"These One-Sex Organizations": Clubwomen Create Communal Institutions - Hollace Ava Weiner
"The Man Who Stayed in Texas": Galveston's Rabbi Henry Cohen, a Memoir - Henry Cohen II Deep in the Heart of Palestine: Zionism in Early Texas - Stuart Rockoff the entrepreneurial era: leaving their mark West Texas Wildcatters: From Immigrant to Patron Saint Rita - Barry Shlachter East Texas Oil Boom: From New Jersey Farm Boy to Scrap Metal King - Jan Statman On the Border: A Deck of Cards Led to Del Rio - Doug Braudaway The Zale Story: Diamonds for the Rough - Lauraine Miller Neiman-Marcus: Al Neiman, a Princely Pauper - Hollace Ava Weiner West of Neiman's: Best Little Department Store in Sweetwater - Jane Bock Guzman current events: changing the texas landscape Little Synagogues across Texas: Baytown, Breckenridge, Brenham, Bryan, Brownsville, Corsicana, Jefferson, Odessa, San Angelo, Schulenburg, Victoria, Wharton - Hollace Ava Weiner and Lauraine Miller Six-Tenths of a Percent of Texas - Kenneth D. Roseman Most Politics is Local - Steve Gutow and Laurie Barker James Minority Report: Dr. Ray K. Daily Battles the Houston School Board - Lynwood Abram Opening Legal Doors for Women: Hermine Tobolowsky - Gladys R. Leff El Paso: The Wild West Welcomes Holocaust Survivors - Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Sylvia Deener Cohen Forty Acres and a Shul: "It's Easy as Dell" - Cathy Schechter Comfort and Discomfort: Being Jewish in Fort Worth - Ralph D. Mecklenburger Afterword List ofContributors Index Color Plates Follow Page 174