Suggested Readings For The Southwest
Fierman, Floyd. 1985. Guts and Ruts The Jewish Pioneer on the Trail in the American
Southwest. New York: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Fierman, Floyd. 1987.
Roots and Boots From Crypto-Jews in New Spain To Community Leader in the
American Southwest. Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Jacobs, Janet Liebman. 2002. Chapter Five: "Conversion and the Rekindling of the Jewish Soul," In Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press. [available online http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9701/9701.ch05.html]
Libo, Kenneth and Irving Howe. 1984.
We Lived There Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures Pioneer Jews and The
Westward Movement of America. New York: St. Martin's/Marek.
Marks. M.L. 1992.
Jews Among The Indians Tales of Adventure and Conflict In The Old
West. Chicago, Illinois: Benison Books.
Niederman, Sharon. 1988.
A Quilt Of Words: Women's Diaries, Letters & Original Accounts of Life in
the Southwest, 1860-1960. Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Publishing
Company.
Rischin, Moses and John Livingston. 1991.
Jews of the American West. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University
Press.
Rochlin, Harriet and Fred Rochlin. 1984.
Pioneer Jews A New Life In The Far West. Boston, Massachusetts:
Houghton-Mifflin Company. Ninth Printing
Stampfer, Rabbi Joshua. n.d. Pioneer Rabbi of the West: The Life
and Times of Julius Eckman. Portland, Oregon: Rabbi Joshua
Publisher.
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Suggested Readings For Texas
Dary, David. 1986.
Entrepreneurs of the Old West. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of
Nebraska Press.
Fierman, Floyd. 1988. "Abraham N. Franzblau Revolutionary Jewish
Educator." In El Paso Historical Review.
Fierman, Floyd. 1981. "Haymon Krupp, Economic Adventurer in the
Southwest." In Password.
Fierman, Floyd and Anne Goodman and Susan Kern. 1983. Insights
and Hindsights of Some El Paso Jewish Families, Volume I Number II.
Fierman, Floyd. 1980.
The Schwartz Family of El Paso, The Story of a Jewish Family in the
Southwest. El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press.
Kohlberg, Walter. 1973.
Letters of Ernst Kohlberg, 1875-1877. El Paso, Texas: Texas Western
Press, University of Texas at El Paso.
Marinbach, Bernard. 1983.
Galveston: Ellis Island of the West. Albany, New York: State
University of New York Press.
Ornish, Natalie. 1989.
Pioneer Jewish Texans Their Impact on Texas and American History For Four
Hundred Years 1590-1990. Dallas, Texas: Texas Heritage Press.
University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures. 1974.
The Jewish Texans. San Antonio, Texas: Institute of Texan Cultures.
Weiner, Hollace Ava. "The Mixers: The Role of Rabbis Deep in the Heart of Texas,"
American Jewish History 85.3 (1997) 289-332. (University of Arizona users should retrieve this article directly. Due to
licensing agreements it is not accessible online to other visitors unless your host
institution subscribes to Project Muse.)
Weiner, Hollace Ava. 1999. Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work.
College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
Winegarten, Ruthe and Cathy Schechter. 1990.
Deep in the Heart The Lives & Legends of Texas Jews A Photographic
History. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press.
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