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Article: Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas.(Book review)
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- American Jewish History
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- September 1, 2008
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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 ...