| Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico Contributor(s): Jaehn, Tomas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0890134677 ISBN-13: 9780890134672 Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - History | Jewish - General |
| Dewey: 978.900 |
| LCCN: 2003015632 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 9.08" W x 11.97" (1.59 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. This book lights the drama that unfolded for these young Jewish merchants, tradesmen, and laborers, 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jaehn, Tomas: - Tomas Jaehn was born in Germany and educated in Hamburg and the United States. He is the curator of library collections at the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
