Kosár
"Just what is a westerner?" asks James H. Nottage in the foreword to this volume. "There is indeed a singular set of perceptions that comes to mind when most individuals give thought to the peopling of the American West." Could the narrow stereotype of the westerner be further from the typical image of the Jew! Here, in a series of thought-provoking essays, is a world that few people know-a world of Jewish cowboys, pioneers in covered wagons, gold miners, frontier politicians, and suffragettes.
First published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los
Angeles, Jewish Life in the American West includes a compelling selection of photographs and other
illustrations. The art and essays together yield a volume that explores not only of the impact of Jews on
the West but the West's impact on American Jews.
