|
Article Excerpt
Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas. Edited by Hollace Ava Weiner and Kenneth D. Roseman. Waltham, MA and Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, in association with the Texas Jewish Historical Society, 2007. 328 pp.
Hollace Ava Weiner, co-editor and driving force behind Lone Stars of David, describes the work as "a popular history book" (xvi). The description is apt in more ways than one. A compilation of twenty-one essays chronicling the history of Jewish Texans, the volume is arranged in three sensible parts--"Formative Years," "The Entrepreneurial Era," and "Current Events." Photographs and documents culled from archives and private collections across the state illustrate nearly every page. Not only was the book designed to appeal to a broad public, it was assembled democratically, brick by brick from the bottom up, from local sources nurtured by the Texas Jewish Historical Society.
This marriage of scholarly monographs, memoirs, and images, however, transcends the parochialism implicit in the term "popular history." The anthology tackles major...
|
|
Looking for additional articles?
Search our database of over 3 million articles.
Looking for more in-depth information on this industry?
Search our complete database of Industry & Market reports by text, subject, publication
name or publication date.
About Goliath
Whether you're looking for sales prospects, competitive information, company
analysis or best practices in managing your organization,
Goliath can help you meet your business needs.
Our extensive business information databases empower business
professionals with both the breadth and depth of credible,
authoritative information they need to support their business
goals. Whether it be strategic planning, sales prospecting,
company research or defining management best practices -
Goliath is your leading source for accurate information.
|
|
