Jewish-community. Jewish community
Record Group
Identifier: Jewish-community
Materials from the Jewish communities in and around Houston, Texas
Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:
Congregation Beth Israel collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 711
Overview
The Congregation Beth Israel Collection offers a glimpse into the day-to-day goings-on of Congregation Beth Israel, with documents spanning a century of the Jewish temple’s existence. Books, memorabilia, directories, programs, sermons, and church bulletins from different decades show the similarities and changes at Beth Israel as it continues to grow with the rest of Houston’s Jewish Community.
Dates:
1854 - 2012
Congregation Beth Jacob - Houston, World War II banner
Collection
Identifier: MS 822
Overview
Silk banner embroidered with 220 names of World War II veterans associated with Beth Jacob Congregation, then located at 3847 Turnberry Circle, Houston, TX.
Dates:
1945
Congregation Beth Jacob, Galveston [TX] records
Collection
Identifier: MS 794
Overview
The Congregation Beth Jacob, Galveston [TX] records is made up of letters, invitations, programs, bulletins, directories, legal documents, and a DVD recording the history of this small, vibrant congregation on Texas’ southern coast. Formed from two smaller communities--Russian and Austro-Hungarian--the congregation has a rich history of tradition.
Dates:
1947 - 2011
Congregation Beth Yeshurun of Houston records
Collection
Identifier: MS 722
Overview
This collection is made up of 51 boxes and includes materials from Congregation Adath Yeshurun, Congregation Beth El, and Congregation Beth Yeshurun; the Schwartz Family Library; materials from the congregations' merger; Shearith Israel Congregation in Wharton, Texas and a few other congregations from the years 1891-2021.
Dates:
1891 - 2021
Congregation K'nesseth Israel [Baytown] Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 924
Overview
This collection consists of two boxes containing news clippings, newsletters, programs, photographs, scrapbooks, video tapes, and yearbooks documenting the history of Congregation K'nesseth Israel in Baytown, Texas, from 1931-2019.
Dates:
1931 - 2019
Croft/Wunsch family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 752
Overview
The Croft/Wunsch family papers include correspondence, awards and citations, photographs, scrapbooks, news clippings, newsletters, meeting minutes, and marketing and event materials that document, primarily, the lives of the Croft and Kaplan families, and to a lesser degree, members of the Wunsch family.
Dates:
1931 - 2000
Daily / Hart Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 893
Overview
The collection consists of four boxes containing family materials and synagogue/organization materials from Congregations Beth Israel, Emanu El and B'nail B'rith, including certificates, contracts, correspondence, school materials, reports, photographs, scrapbooks and memory books, and memorabilia spanning the years 1911 to 2015.
Dates:
1911 - 2015
Dan & Ellen Trachtenberg papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 756
Overview
The collection contains news clippings, newsletters, event programs, photographs, and slides that document a small part of Ellen and Dan Trachtenberg's activism to improve conditions for Soviet Jews.
Dates:
1977 - 1989
Dattle Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 835
Overview
The Dattle Family papers are made up of certificates, records, and a photo recording the marriage and military service of Phillip Dattle.
Dates:
1939 - 1946
Daum/Gersh Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 850
Overview
The collection consists of a binder of the Houston Hadassah chapter's Business and Professional committee's meeting minutes and other Hadassah materials, yearbooks, directories, recipes and newspaper clippings ranging from 1937 to 2012.
Dates:
1937 - 2012