Author: Beverly C. Warren
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385243391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Stars Over Texas
Author: Beverly C. Warren
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385243391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385243391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Jewish Stars in Texas
Author: Hollace Ava Weiner
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585444946
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Texas Jews may be only a small proportion of the state's population, but their leaders have often shone as unlikely stars in this Bible Belt state. Grounded in the culture that gave rise to Christianity and thus sharing many of the community's values, rabbis schooled outside the region brought erudition and an exotic individuality to the frontier. Furthermore, a rabbi's prophetic sense of social justice, honed through centuries of Talmudic thought, gave a Hebrew minister moral clout in a vigilante climate. Because Texas synagogues were small, rabbis served entire communities, evolving into public figures recruited for an array of roles. They blessed stock shows and rodeos. They founded hospitals, symphonies, and charities. They broadcast Sunday sermons over the radio. They challenged the Ku Klux Klan and fought for academic freedom and prison reform. Their names are etched on cornerstones and scrawled on state documents. Welcomed as leaders of the Chosen People, rabbis thrived, and many stayed their entire careers. Rabbis who accepted a call to the Lone Star State when it was still on the edge of the frontier often ventured out West as a last resort. Some were freelancers, never ordained. Others came because they had no better pulpit offers. A number had left Europe as rebels, seeking to escape traditional religious practices. These maverick rabbis were drawn to places with little Jewish history or hierarchy -- communities such as Beaumont, Galveston, Fort Worth, Lubbock, El Paso, and Tyler -- where they created their own religious blueprints. This thoroughly researched and engaging volume, covering a time span from the 1870s through the 1920s, tells the lively stories of elevenrabbis, their lives, and their Texas towns, from big cities such as Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio to the remote locales of Hempstead and Brownsville. Sit back and enjoy Texas history through rabbinical eyes.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585444946
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Texas Jews may be only a small proportion of the state's population, but their leaders have often shone as unlikely stars in this Bible Belt state. Grounded in the culture that gave rise to Christianity and thus sharing many of the community's values, rabbis schooled outside the region brought erudition and an exotic individuality to the frontier. Furthermore, a rabbi's prophetic sense of social justice, honed through centuries of Talmudic thought, gave a Hebrew minister moral clout in a vigilante climate. Because Texas synagogues were small, rabbis served entire communities, evolving into public figures recruited for an array of roles. They blessed stock shows and rodeos. They founded hospitals, symphonies, and charities. They broadcast Sunday sermons over the radio. They challenged the Ku Klux Klan and fought for academic freedom and prison reform. Their names are etched on cornerstones and scrawled on state documents. Welcomed as leaders of the Chosen People, rabbis thrived, and many stayed their entire careers. Rabbis who accepted a call to the Lone Star State when it was still on the edge of the frontier often ventured out West as a last resort. Some were freelancers, never ordained. Others came because they had no better pulpit offers. A number had left Europe as rebels, seeking to escape traditional religious practices. These maverick rabbis were drawn to places with little Jewish history or hierarchy -- communities such as Beaumont, Galveston, Fort Worth, Lubbock, El Paso, and Tyler -- where they created their own religious blueprints. This thoroughly researched and engaging volume, covering a time span from the 1870s through the 1920s, tells the lively stories of elevenrabbis, their lives, and their Texas towns, from big cities such as Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio to the remote locales of Hempstead and Brownsville. Sit back and enjoy Texas history through rabbinical eyes.
Stars Over Texas
Author: Carolyn H. Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571680723
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Follows the history of Texas, from the early explorers to the years of the new Republic.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571680723
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Follows the history of Texas, from the early explorers to the years of the new Republic.
Stars Over Texas
Author: Carolyn Adams
Publisher: Eakin Press
ISBN: 9781681790640
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Ever since the first Spanish soldiers and priests set foot on land that would be called Texas, a unique history has evolved. That history, as well as the many other dynamic aspects of Texas, is shared in "Stars Over Texas." Classroom-tested for comprehension and interest, the book is an excellent enrichment tool for students of Texas history, grades three through seven. Author Carolyn Adams covers the colonial days of early Texas, its revolutionary period in the struggle for independence from Mexico, and its stature as a nation and a state. In this carefully researched work, complete with fine illustrations, the author examines an array of subject areas, including the people, culture, natural resources, and symbols of the state. Assignment suggestions, vocabulary building, puzzles, and "Treasure Hunts" (to encourage additional research) are included.
Publisher: Eakin Press
ISBN: 9781681790640
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Ever since the first Spanish soldiers and priests set foot on land that would be called Texas, a unique history has evolved. That history, as well as the many other dynamic aspects of Texas, is shared in "Stars Over Texas." Classroom-tested for comprehension and interest, the book is an excellent enrichment tool for students of Texas history, grades three through seven. Author Carolyn Adams covers the colonial days of early Texas, its revolutionary period in the struggle for independence from Mexico, and its stature as a nation and a state. In this carefully researched work, complete with fine illustrations, the author examines an array of subject areas, including the people, culture, natural resources, and symbols of the state. Assignment suggestions, vocabulary building, puzzles, and "Treasure Hunts" (to encourage additional research) are included.
Texas Sky
Author: Wyman Meinzer
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292752180
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Declared Texas State Photographer for 1997, the author celebrates his native state with a collection of some 114 pages of color photographs, along with a thoughtful, accompanying essay by John Graves that captures the essence of Texas. UP.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292752180
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Declared Texas State Photographer for 1997, the author celebrates his native state with a collection of some 114 pages of color photographs, along with a thoughtful, accompanying essay by John Graves that captures the essence of Texas. UP.
Stars Over Texas
Author: Ronnie Eugene Erwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sheriffs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sheriffs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lone Stars: 1936-1986
Author: Karoline Patterson Bresenhan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quilts
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quilts
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Stars Over Texas
Author: Valentine Jerome Poska
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Tempest over Texas
Author: Donald S. Frazier
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1933337850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Tempest Over Texas: The Fall and Winter Campaigns, 1863–1864 is the fourth installment in Dr. Donald S. Frazier’s award-winning Louisiana Quadrille series. Picking up the story of the Civil War in Louisiana and Texas after the fall of Port Hudson and Vicksburg, Tempest Over Texas describes Confederate confusion on how to carry on in the Trans-Mississippi given the new strategic realities. Likewise, Federal forces gathered from Memphis to New Orleans were in search of a new mission. International intrigues and disasters on distant battlefields would all conspire to confuse and perplex war-planners. One thing remained, however. The Stars and Stripes needed to fly once again in Texas, and as soon as possible.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1933337850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Tempest Over Texas: The Fall and Winter Campaigns, 1863–1864 is the fourth installment in Dr. Donald S. Frazier’s award-winning Louisiana Quadrille series. Picking up the story of the Civil War in Louisiana and Texas after the fall of Port Hudson and Vicksburg, Tempest Over Texas describes Confederate confusion on how to carry on in the Trans-Mississippi given the new strategic realities. Likewise, Federal forces gathered from Memphis to New Orleans were in search of a new mission. International intrigues and disasters on distant battlefields would all conspire to confuse and perplex war-planners. One thing remained, however. The Stars and Stripes needed to fly once again in Texas, and as soon as possible.
Cooking My Way Through Life with Kids and Books
Author: Judy Alter
Publisher: Stars of Texas
ISBN: 9781933337333
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author tells her family's history and provides more than one hundred recipes for a variety of dishes, including appetizers, breads, desserts, and more.
Publisher: Stars of Texas
ISBN: 9781933337333
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author tells her family's history and provides more than one hundred recipes for a variety of dishes, including appetizers, breads, desserts, and more.