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The Harness Maker's Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas
Nick Kotz
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Description for The Harness Maker's Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas
Hardcover. A Joint Project of the Center for Texas Studies at TCU and TCU Press. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BGA; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 726.
Both historical study and ancestral narrative, The Harness Maker’s Dream follows the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison’s journey to the United States in search of a brighter future. At the turn of the twentieth century, over two million Jews emigrated from Czarist Russia and Eastern Europe to escape anti-Semitic law. Seventeen-year-old Kallison and his brothers were among those brave enough to escape persecution and pursue a life of freedom by leaving their homeland in 1890. Faced with the challenges of learning English and earning wages as a harness maker, Kallison struggles to adapt to his new environment.
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Both historical study and ancestral narrative, The Harness Maker’s Dream follows the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison’s journey to the United States in search of a brighter future. At the turn of the twentieth century, over two million Jews emigrated from Czarist Russia and Eastern Europe to escape anti-Semitic law. Seventeen-year-old Kallison and his brothers were among those brave enough to escape persecution and pursue a life of freedom by leaving their homeland in 1890. Faced with the challenges of learning English and earning wages as a harness maker, Kallison struggles to adapt to his new environment.
Kallison ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875655673
SKU
V9780875655673
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Ref
99-19
About Nick Kotz
San Antonio-born Nick Kotz is a renowned author, journalist, and historian whose work has received top honors in his field, including the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence, the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, the National Magazine Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award. With subjects ranging from labor unions to the civil ... Read more
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