Raisins & Almonds . . . and Texas Oil! Jewish Life in the Great East Texas Oil Field Penguin Publishing Group With potent immediacy and bracing

With potent immediacy and bracing candor

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Raisins & Almonds . . . and Texas Oil! Jewish Life in the Great East Texas Oil Field Penguin Publishing Group With potent immediacy and bracing"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