FRANKEL BROTHERS ON BOOK COVER!
The bookcover of "Jewish Life in the American West" is a picture of two Jewish Hungarian immigrants brothers Adolph and Sam Frankel. They posed for the picture in Cushing, Okla, sometime between 1915-1920.

Sam Frankel, is dressed in typical business attire of the times, while his brother Adolph is in full cowboy gear, complete with bandana, lariat and fuzzy chaps.

Adolph and Sam Frankel were born in Hungary, immigrated through Galveston, Texas, and eventually owned clothing businesses in Cushing, Oklahoma, and Borger, Texas.





This book was edited by Ava F. Kahn (Heyday Books, $22.50, 144 pages with black and white photos throughout) and published by Heyday in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Autry Museum of Western Heritage.