{"product_id":"9781940130781","title":"Raisins \u0026 Almonds . . . and Texas Oil! Jewish Life in the Great East Texas Oil Field","description":"\"Raisins \u0026amp; 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.\u003cp\u003eMartin 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving 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 look out for traffic.\" Sam Krasner swears he didn't ride into town on a turnip truck, he \"rode in on a truckload of seven-inch pipe!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey all gathered from many exotic corners of the world to find themselves in the most exotic place of all-East Texas during the Oil Boom. Their recollections make the times come alive again in this historical work that reads like a novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wild Horse Media Group LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49954165489904,"sku":"9781940130781","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940130781","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}