Contents

• 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