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<p>Stanley Ely says that when the fiftieth or so person confronted him with a skeptical, You mean you're Jewish, and you're from Texas? he decided to do more than smile and say, Yes. The result is this funny, caustic and nostalgic tale in the tradition of popular regionally and ethnically focused memoirs. <BR> Around the beginning of this century, Ely's parents (as young children) and grandparents immigrated to Galveston, fleeing oppression as Jews in Russia and Romania. Their arrival sets Ely's memoir in motion. Combining the stories of the author's grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings and friends and including an abundance of family photos, the book continues until today, as Ely faces his own senior years living in New York. Though the book is not a typical coming out story, the reader also learns of Ely's gradual and at times reluctant acceptance of himself as a gay man. <BR> The story of Ely's family and their friends reflects the impressive growth of Dallas and its Jewish population in the first half of this century. As he narrates the building of new lives in Texas, Ely also portrays the integration of a minority segment of Jewish immigrants in America outside the g

Author

Ely, Stanley E.

Publisher

Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780875651873

Subjects

History, Biography, Historical Fiction