Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue: Rope Walker, A True Story ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. One: Los Judíos en la Frontera 22
7. Two: A “Wild Indian Region”: At Home on the Frontier 40
8. Three: The Possum and the Zionist 69
9. Four: Texas News for Texas Jews 98
10. Five: Texas Jews and the Ku Klux Klan 121
11. Six: Traditional Judaism and the Beth Israel Revolt 147
12. Seven: Texas Jews Respond to the World Crises of the 1940s 170
13. Eight: “Are You Going to Serve Us?”: Texas Jews and the Black Civil Rights Movement 193
14. Nine: Interior Frontiers 215
15. Conclusion 235
16. Notes 239
17. Bibliography 267
18. Index 279