| Description |
1 online resource (v, 337 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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"A Joint Project of the Center for Texas Studies at TCU and TCU Press." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
To freedom -- Chicago -- Deep in the heart -- The land -- Tradition! -- War, peace, and prosperity -- The Great Depression -- The old trader -- World War II: the Texas home front -- The best years -- The brothers Kallison -- All in the family -- No business for sissies -- Changing times -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
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 stru. |
| Local Note |
TO BE DELETED |
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| Subject |
Kallison, Nathan, 1873-1944.
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Kallison family.
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Kallison family |
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Kallison, Nathan, 1873-1944 |
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Businessmen -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Biography.
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Ranchers -- Texas -- Bexar County -- Biography.
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Jews, Russian -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Biography.
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San Antonio (Tex.) -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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Businessmen |
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Jews, Russian |
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Ranchers |
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Texas -- Bexar County https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqKf74dBffJGMMJfwGCQq |
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Texas -- San Antonio https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRDqGkWDPYt4XXCjV6fY |
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Biography
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Center for Texas Studies at TCU.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kotz, Nick. Harness maker's dream 9780875655673 (DLC) 2013007143 (OCoLC)848392996 |
| ISBN |
9781461952855 (electronic bk.) |
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1461952859 (electronic bk.) |
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9780875655932 |
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0875655939 |
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9780875655673 |
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087565567X |
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