Buy this book on-line Fierman, Floyd S : ROOTS AND BOOTS: FROM CRYPTO-JEW IN NEW SPAIN TO COMMUNITY LEADER IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWESTHoboken; KTAV Pub. House, 1987
Hardbound. 8vo. XIII, 241 [21] pages. 24 cm. First edition. 21 pages of plates. Red cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine, dust jackets. 21 pages of plates. Rabbi Floyd Fierman, Ph. D. (1917-1989) , served Temple Mount Sinai of El Paso, Texas from 1949 to 1979. His leadership in the community extended far beyond the temple. He was actively engaged in combating racism and fighting for civil rights in El Paso. He was also dedicated to interfaith education and communication and to tracking the history of Jews in the binational southwest. Although Fierman was not trained as a professional historian, his contributions to the field included several books and monographs on Jews of the southwest, including “Guts and Ruts: The Jewish Pioneer on the Trail in the American Southwest” (1984) , and its sequel “Roots and Boots” (1988) . He also wrote for several scholarly journals including Western States Jewish History, American Jewish Historical Quarterly, American Jewish Archives, and Arizona and the Southwest. Subjects: Jews -- Genealogy -- Southwest, New -- Jews -- Genealogy. Sephardim -- Southwest, New -- Genealogy. Dust jacket lightly soiled. Edges lightly soiled. Internal pages crisp. Very good+ condition. (SEF41-5) xx Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Fierman, Floyd S : ROOTS AND BOOTS: FROM CRYPTO-JEW IN NEW SPAIN TO COMMUNITY LEADER IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, fine bindings, livres d'occasion, rare books and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |