Raisins & Almonds . . . and Texas Oil! Jewish Life in the Great East Texas Oil Field

Книга "Raisins & Almonds . . . and Texas Oil! Jewish Life in the Great East Texas Oil Field". "Raisins & Almonds" is the story of the Jewish contribution to the Great East Texas Oil Boom, told in the words of those who lived it. Twenty-four people describe the same events from vastly different points of view in the same way the different threads are gathered to weave the fabric of a community. Martin Marwil's eyewitness description of bring in Dad Joiner's first discovery well site. Norman Balter's stories of shoveling coal as fireman on a cross-country freight train give us a feeling for Depression days, when people were down-and-out and desperate to survive. Milton Galoob tells how he couldn't afford tires for his truck. "I came to from Oklahoma to East Texas on two tires and two rims."Irving Falk shares the emotions of a seventeen-year-old who found himself alone and obliged to make his way in the oilfields. "I was completely in awe. I didn't know whether to look up, down, or l...