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Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico - 9780890134665

Un libro in lingua di Chavez Thomas E. Tomas Jaehn Tobias Henry J. (CON) edito da Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2003

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Against a backdrop of European unrest, immigration to America flourished in the nineteenth century, for European Jews as for other groups. Two waves of immigration brought Jews to New Mexico, the first largely of German men in the 1840s and 1850s and the second of Eastern Europeans with the coming of the railroad to New Mexico in the 1880s.
Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico lights the drama that unfolded for these young Jewish merchants, tradesmen, in cases laborers and the unemployed - fathers, brothers, and cousins who were linked in their homeland through a complex web of intermarriage and who built quite successfully on their cultural and social relationships to become among New Mexico's most prominent, productive citizens.
While many Jewish emigres remained in eastern cities, and certainly many returned to them or to Europe later in the twentieth century; a few hundred hearty souls opted to brave isolation, arduous travel, and unfamiliar cultures to follow the lure and pursue the opportunities of the flourishing West.
Until recently, the history of New Mexico's Jews has been scattered in fragments of letters, diaries, memoirs, and family stories, remaining largely untold. This volume represents the first effort to document this social history, in never-before-seen family photos, personal possessions, oral histories, and reminiscences that graphically narrate this immigrant success story so indelibly woven into the fabric of New Mexico history.

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