ISBN: 9780874177374

Produktart: Gebundene Ausgabe. Title Format: Gebundene Ausgabe. Marschall's insights into the Jewish experience in Nevada in comparison with that in the rest of the country make this book… Plus…

Produktart: Gebundene Ausgabe. Title Format: Gebundene Ausgabe. Marschall's insights into the Jewish experience in Nevada in comparison with that in the rest of the country make this book significant to readers interested in Nevada and western history, immigration, and ethnic and religious history. Weitere detailsTitel: Jews in NevadaZustand: NeuSubtitle: A HistoryProduktart: Gebundene AusgabeEAN: 9780874177374ISBN: 9780874177374Verlag: University of Nevada PressGenre: HistoryThematik: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease date: 30/04/2008Description: Jews are one of Nevada's most active and influential ethnic minorities, but their vital role in the state's history has not been fully studied until now. Jews were among the state's earliest Euro-American settlers, and helped to build the new towns and the boom-and-bust mining camps. Some established important businesses and participated in the state's embryonic civic life. Others forged a vital commercial and cultural link between Nevada's frontier and San Francisco's cosmopolitan Jewish community. For over a century and a half, Jews have participated in every area of the state's life, as businessmen, agrarians, scholars, educators, artists, politicians, and civic and religious leaders.John P. Marschall has spent almost two decades tracing their story. Using a wide range of sources, including archival records in the U.S. and Europe, personal papers, newspapers, public records, and interviews with a large number of individuals in Nevada's contemporary Jewish communities, Marschall offers an engaging, multilayered account of Jews in Nevada. We meet such colorful characters as Aachen-born Adolph Sutro, who succeeded against all odds to construct a four-mile-long tunnel to drain the Comstock's deep hard-rock mines; Jacob W. Davis (born Youphes), a Latvian-born tailor whose patented design for durable cotton work pants with copper-riveted pockets became the world-famous Levi's blue jeans; and Moe Dalitz, a Las Vegas casino pioneer whose unscrupulous past was balanced by his leadership in the development of Las Vegas and his generosity to Jewish community causes.""Jews in Nevada"" is a major addition to the history of the state's peoples and development. Marschall's insights into the Jewish experience in Nevada in comparison with that in the rest of the country make this book significant to readers interested in Nevada and western history, immigration, and ethnic and religious history.Sprache: EnglischHerstellungsland und -region: USAutor: No AuthorTitle Format: Gebundene Ausgabe Information fehlt?Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns, wenn Details fehlen und wir werden diese solange möglich zu unserer Beschreibung hinzufügen., Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Artikelzustand: Neu, Buchtitel: Jews in Nevada, Subtitle: A History, EAN: 9780874177374, Genre: History, Thematik: Social Sciences, Release date: 30/04/2008, Sprache: Englisch, Herstellungsland und -region: US, University of Nevada Press<

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[EAN: 9780874177374], Neubuch, [PU: University of Nevada Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Jews are one of Nevada's most active and influential ethnic minorities, … Plus…

[EAN: 9780874177374], Neubuch, [PU: University of Nevada Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Jews are one of Nevada's most active and influential ethnic minorities, but their vital role in the state's history has not been fully studied until now. Jews were among the state's earliest Euro-American settlers, and helped to build the new towns and the boom-and-bust mining camps. Some established important businesses and participated in the state's embryonic civic life. Others forged a vital commercial and cultural link between Nevada's frontier and San Francisco's cosmopolitan Jewish community. For over a century and a half, Jews have participated in every area of the state's life, as businessmen, agrarians, scholars, educators, artists, politicians, and civic and religious leaders.John P. Marschall has spent almost two decades tracing their story. Using a wide range of sources, including archival records in the U.S. and Europe, personal papers, newspapers, public records, and interviews with a large number of individuals in Nevada's contemporary Jewish communities, Marschall offers an engaging, multilayered account of Jews in Nevada. We meet such colorful characters as Aachen-born Adolph Sutro, who succeeded against all odds to construct a four-mile-long tunnel to drain the Comstock's deep hard-rock mines; Jacob W. Davis (born Youphes), a Latvian-born tailor whose patented design for durable cotton work pants with copper-riveted pockets became the world-famous Levi's blue jeans; and Moe Dalitz, a Las Vegas casino pioneer whose unscrupulous past was balanced by his leadership in the development of Las Vegas and his generosity to Jewish community causes."Jews in Nevada" is a major addition to the history of the state's peoples and development. Marschall's insights into the Jewish experience in Nevada in comparison with that in the rest of the country make this book significant to readers interested in Nevada and western history, immigration, and ethnic and religious history.<

ISBN: 9780874177374

Hardback, [PU: University of Nevada Press], Jews are one of Nevada's most active and influential ethnic minorities. They were among the state's earliest Euro-American settlers, and helped… Plus…

Hardback, [PU: University of Nevada Press], Jews are one of Nevada's most active and influential ethnic minorities. They were among the state's earliest Euro-American settlers, and helped to build the new towns and the boom-and-bust mining camps. Suitable for readers interested in Nevada and western history, and ethnic and religious history, this work gives an account of Jews in Nevada., Social & Cultural History<